Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 36:17
הכא במאי עסקינן בזמן שבית המקדש קיים
on a dunghill', and they stopped them, and they made that day a feast day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Geiger, Urschrift, p. 34 places this in the last days of John Hyrcanus when the Pharisees turned against him; Graetz, Geschichte III, 2 p. 572 during the reign of Queen Salome when the Pharisees were in power. For other views, v. Lichtenstein, H, HUCA, pp. 283ff].');"><sup>28</sup></span> Now if you maintain that the Megillath Ta'anith has been annulled, [is it possible that] while the former [prohibitions of fasting] have been annulled, new ones should be added? - With what are we here dealing? With the period when the Temple was still standing
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