Mishnayos Megillah Perek 2 Mishnah 2
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מגילה פרק ב׳ משנה ב׳
If one read the Megilla at intervals, pausing and resuming, or while he is dozing off, he has fulfilled his obligation. If one was writing a Megilla, or expounding upon it, or correcting it, and he read all its words as he was doing so, the following distinction applies: If he had intent to fulfill his obligation with that reading he has fulfilled his obligation, but if not, he has not fulfilled his obligation. If one reads from a Megilla that was written not with ink but with sam or with sikra or with komos or with kankantom, or from a Megilla that was written not on parchment but on neyar or on diftera, a kind of unprocessed leather, he has not fulfilled his obligation. He does not fulfill his obligation unless he reads from a Megilla that is written in Ashurit, i.e., in the Hebrew language and using the Hebrew script, upon parchment and with ink.
קְרָאָהּ סֵרוּגִין, וּמִתְנַמְנֵם, יָצָא. הָיָה כוֹתְבָהּ, דּוֹרְשָׁהּ, וּמַגִּיהָהּ, אִם כִּוֵּן לִבּוֹ, יָצָא. וְאִם לָאו, לֹא יָצָא. הָיְתָה כְּתוּבָה בְּסַם, וּבְסִקְרָא, וּבְקוֹמוֹס וּבְקַנְקַנְתּוֹם, עַל הַנְּיָר וְעַל הַדִּפְתְּרָא, לֹא יָצָא, עַד שֶׁתְּהֵא כְּתוּבָה אַשּׁוּרִית, עַל הַסֵּפֶר וּבִדְיוֹ:
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סירוגין. שקרא מעט ושהא, וחזר וקרא מעט ושהא, אפילו שהא יותר מכדי לגמור את כולה, יצא:
היה כותבה כו׳ כגון דכתיבא כולה ומנחא קמיה וקרי פסוקא פסוקא במגילתא דמנחא קמיה וכתב לה, דלא נפיק ידי חובתיה אלא כשקורא במגילה שהיא כתובה כולה:
אם כיון לבו. לצאת בקריאה זו:
בסם. שרש עשב שקורין לו סמא:
בסקרא. אבן שצובעים בה אדום:
קומוס. מין שרף, ובלע״ז גומ״א:
קנקנתום. ודריאול״ו בלע״ז, ובערבי זא״ג:
נייר. עשוי מעשבים ע״י דבק וכותבים עליו:
דפתרא. עור שלא נשלם תקונו. דמליח וקמיח ולא עפיץ:
על הספר. על הקלף:
סירוגין – that he reads a bit and then pauses, and goes back and reads a bit [more] and pauses, even if he paused more than it would take in order to read all of it, he has fulfilled [his religious obligation].
היה כותבה – such as he writes the entire [Megillah], and sets it before him and reads verse-by-verse in the Megillah placed before him, and he writes it, but he does not fulfill his religious obligation other than when he reads the Megillah when it completely written.
אם כיון לבו – to fulfill [his religious obligation] through this reading.
בסם – it is root of grass that is called SAHM (a paint).
בסקרא – a stone that we paint red with it.
קומוס – a kind of resin/gum and in the foreign language [it is called] GUMMA.
קנקנתום – (vitriol – used an ingredient of shoe-black and of ink) – in the foreign language [it is called] DRIOLAV, and in Arabic ZA’AG.
נייר – made from grasses through a glue and we write upon it.
דפתרא – a leather hide in which its preparation was not completed , which is preserved in salt (i.e., pickled) and floured but not prepared with gall-nut juice.
על הספר – on the parchment.