Commentary for Megillah 3:12

ואימא תריסר ותליסר כדאמר רב שמואל בר יצחק י"ג זמן קהילה לכל היא ולא צריך לרבויי הכא נמי י"ג זמן קהילה לכל היא ולא צריך לרבויי

And I could say, [these two days are] the twelfth and thirteenth? [This is not correct] for the reason given [elsewhere] by Rav Shmuel bar Yitzchak: The thirteenth was the time of assembly for all [meaning, the Jews assembled to fight their enemies on the thirteenth, both those who lived in Shushan and the village-dwellers], and [therefore] no special indication is required for it in the text. We may say here that the thirteenth day is a time of assembly and no special indication is required for it in the text.

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