Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 36:2

“On the seventeenth of it Gentiles attacked the remainder of the Sopherim at the city of Khalkis and Bet-Zabdin²¹²Khalkis was a city near Tripolis (Lebanon) and Bet-Zavda probably was in Syria. The baraita in Megillat Ta`anit connects this with the persecution of the Pharisees by Alexander Yannai. and there was relief.<sup>202</sup>Megillat Ta`anit, Adar.” In Rebbi Meïr’s opinion it is understandable, it comes to forbid the {day} itself. What does it come to forbid for Rebbi Yose²¹³Since it is the day after the second day of Purim which for him automatically is forbidden.? [The day before? Is not the day itself forbidden for him?]²¹⁴Unsupported corrector’s addition, to be deleted. Rebbi Yose said, all these matters neither support nor contradict either Rebbi Meïr or Rebbi Yose; they only come to report the days on which miracles were done for Israel. You have to understand that this is so since we have stated²¹⁵Megillat Ta`anit, Nisan. This does not refer to the start of regular sacrifices as described by Lev. 9, but to the acceptance as Temple practice that public offerings must be paid for by public taxes, against the Sadducee opinion that private donations may be solicited for these.: “On the New Moon of Nisan the Daily Offering was settled, one may not eulogize.” Without this is he not already forbidden because of the New Moon<sup>216</sup>Which is a semi-holiday, only without work-related restrictions.? <sup>217</sup>Tosephta 2:6, Babli 17b, Babli Roš Haššanah19a.“But on Sabbath and holidays one fasts before and after them. What is your reason to be lenient with these and restrictive with those? For these are words of the Torah, and words of the Torah do not need reinforcement. But those are words of the Sopherim<sup>218</sup>The mention of Sopherim indicates that the principles of Megillat Ta`anit are part of Ezra’s organization of post-exilic Judaism, even though the redaction of the Scroll belongs to the last generation before the destruction of the 2nd Temple., and words of the Sopherim need reinforcement.” That is what you were saying, as long as Megillat Ta`anit was not abolished. But since Megillat Ta`anit was abolished, all these were abolished. Rebbi Ḥanina and Rebbi Jonathan both said, Megillat Ta`anit was abolished<sup>219</sup>First generation Amoraim. Babli Roš Haššanah18b. From here on a similar text also is in Nedarim8:1 (Notes 33–35,נ).. Rebbi Abba and Rebbi Simon both said, Megillat Ta`anit was abolished. Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, Megillat Ta`anit was abolished. Rebbi Joḥanan said, yesterday I was repeating, <sup>220</sup>Tosephta 2:5, Babli Roš Haššanah18b.“it happened that in Lydda they decided on a fast-day on Ḥanukkah. They said about Rebbi Eliezer that he got a haircut, and about Rebbi Joshua that he took a {thermal} bath<sup>221</sup>Forbidden on a later fast-day for rain, Mishnah 1:7.. Rebbi Joshua said to them, go and fast because you fasted.” And you are saying, Megillat Ta`anit was abolished? Rebbi Abba said, even if you are saying that Megillat Ta`anit was abolished, Ḥanukkah and Purim were not abolished²²²Confirmed in the Babli Roš Haššanah 19b..