Related%20passage for Rosh Hashanah 36:14
אלא אמר רב יוסף שאני חנוכה דמיפרסם ניסא
and they said to the inhabitants, Go and fast in atonement for having fasted [on this day]'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And if it was prohibited to fast on Hanukah, so also on the other days mentioned in Megillath Ta'anith.');"><sup>20</sup></span> - R'Joseph said: Hanukah is different, because there is a religious ceremony [attached to it]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz., the kindling of the lights.');"><sup>21</sup></span> Said Abaye to him: Let it be abolished and its ceremony with it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Seeing that it is purely Rabbinical.');"><sup>22</sup></span>
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