When does burying an unclaimed dead body (met mitzva) take precedence over reading the megillah?
Synopsis
An unclaimed dead body in the field (moutal be'bizayon) takes precedence over megillah reading. However, disagreement exists about whether this applies when the body is in a city where others care for its burial, or only in cases of true abandonment.
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