Reading the Megillah

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The Bracha

  1. The minhag is that women do make a bracha if they are reading the Megillah or the one reading it for women does make a bracha. [1]

Time of the readings

  1. There’s a mitzvah to read the Megillah once at night and once during the day. [2]
  2. The time for reading the Megillah at night is from Tzet HaCochavim until Olat HaShachar. [3]
  3. The time for reading the megillah during the day is from Netz Hachama until Shekiah. However if one read it from Olot HaShachar one has fulfilled the mitzvah.If one didn’t read it until Shekiah, one should read it until Tzet HaCochavim without a Bracha. [4]
  4. If one missed reading it at night there’s no make-up the next day. [5]
  5. Someone who lives in Yerushalyim and planned on being in Yerushalyim on the 15th at night but was unable to be in Yerushalyim, one should read the Megilah with a Bracha even if he’s in a non-walled town. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Sh"T Yabea Omer O"C 1:40
  2. ↑ Megillah 4a, S”A 687:1
  3. ↑ S”A 687:1 says that the night reading applies all night, Mishna Brurah 687:1,3 explains that this means that one should read it between Tzet HaCochavim and Olat HaShachar. So rules Chazon Ovadyah (pg 47).
  4. ↑ S”A 687:1 writes that the reading of the day applies all day from Netz but after the fact one fulfilled the mitzvah if one read it after Olot HaShachar. Mishna Brurah 687:4,5 explains that the ending time is Shekiah and after the fact one should read it without a Bracha until Tzet HaCochavim.
  5. ↑ Mishna Brurah 687:3, Chazon Ovadyah (pg 48)
  6. ↑ S”A 688:5, Mishna Brurah 688:12
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