Commentary for Megillah 19:3

for as it is written, “For you have not yet come to the rest and to the inheritance” (Deuteronomy 12:9). “Rest” here means Shiloh and “inheritance” means Jerusalem. The verse compares “inheritance” to “rest” [to show that] just as after the [destruction of the] “rest” it was again permitted, so after the [destruction of the] “inheritance” it is again permitted.

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