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A Megillah Free From Temptation

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You will all remember how last year Rabbi Entitledbaum railed against the ancient text and the many seeds spilled over it:

“My Tatte (father) zichrone livroche would never have agreed to reading from the megillah with names of women. This pirtzeh (breach of modesty), which causes men to sin, has been diagnosed as the cancer of our time.”

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