Tosafos asks why there is no issue of Lo Tisgodidu by the fact that the cities and villages read on different days. Tosafos answers that it is impossible to suggest that the reading was done by the city person for the villagers, bec. on the day prior to the 14th the city person is not obligated in the mitzvah of reading and cannot read for others. Therefore, the villagers must of had a village person read for them. Thus, they had no need to come to the city to read, rather they read in their village, in which case it is like 2 batei dinim in 2 different cities so there is no problem of Lo Tisgodidu. Rashi in Maseches Megillah 2a writes clearly that the city person read for the villagers (rashi considers the city person to be a bar chiyuva even on the earlier day - see ritvah there). Rashi clearly holds that the villagers came to the city to hear the megillah, so the question of Tosafos is still applicable, since there are 2 customs being maintained within 1 city, it should be a problem of Lo Tisgodidu? It seems to me that Rashi himself 13b understands that the issue of Lo Tisgodidu was only considered a problem between the walled and non-walled cities since the walled city people cannot read on the 14th, and the non-walled city people cannot read on the 15th - that is 2 entirely separate customs. But, the villagers who ideally should read on the 14th as well and can actually read on the 14th, just that chazal were lenient on them and allowed them to read earlier, there is no issur of Lo Tisgodidu at all for them to read in the city prior to the 14th.
2 comments:
you are completely correct. Three proofs to the point:
1 - Rashi on the first wide line on 13b seems to understand the lo tisgodedu issue to be about the 14 and 15th, completely omitting the earlier days. Apparently, once the gemara says we are only focused on halacha and not minhag, the previous days are out the window. The ikar takana is 14th or 15th with a special dispensation to extend the 14th backwards b'sha'as hadchak.
2 - The ran at the beginning of Megilla holds that the bnei kfar wouldn't read at night. This is obviously not their primary day (ikar takanah) if they skip nighttime laining.
3 - Tosafos Megilla daf 19 asks why one who read megilla earlier and then winds up in a city on the 14th should read again. Didn't he fulfill his mitzvah already? According to this idea that there are only two takanos it is very good.
1. my source was that rashi - that was my reference to rashi on 13b. and yes, like you said, rashi at the beginning of the sugya mentions the kefarim only bec. in the hava amina we thought that minhag also creates lo tisgodidu.
3. nice proof. shkoyach.
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