Reading the Megillah

From Halachipedia

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 HaKochavim 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 HaKochavim without a Bracha. [4]
  4. If one missed reading it at night there’s no make-up the next day. [5]

Hearing it in a congregation

  1. Some have the pious practice to read from a kosher megillah along with the baal koreh. [6]

Traveling Between a walled city and a non-walled city

  1. Someone who lives in Yerushalyim who was in a city outside Yerushalyim during daybreak of the 14th of Adar should read on the 14th. If he returns to Yerushalyim before the 15th at daybreak, one should celebrate purim again with all it’s details. [7]
  2. Someone who lives in Yerushalyim who travels outside Yerushalim with intent to return after daybreak of the 14th he should read it on the 14th only if he did return after daybreak on the 14th. [8]
  3. Someone who lives in Yerushalyim who travels outside Yerushalim with intent to return before daybreak of the 14th should read it on the 15th even if he didn’t return to Yerushalyim on the 15th. [9]
  4. Someone who lives outside Yerushalim who was in Yerushalayim during daybreak of the 15th should read on the 15th. However, if he already read the Megillah and celebrated Purim on the 14th in his city (outside Yerushalim) one doesn’t need to celebrate Purim again. [10]
  5. Someone who lives outside Yerushalim who travels to Yerushalayim with intent to stay there for daybreak on the 15th should read the Megillah on the 15th even if one leaves on the 15th during the day. [11]
  6. Someone who lives outside Yerushalyim who travels to Yerushalayim with intent to return before daybreak of the 15th should read it on the 14th even if one is forced into staying there. [12]

If Purim Falls out on Sunday

  1. If Purim falls out on Saturday night then one should read the megillah and then say VeYehe Noam, and then make Havdalah. [13] According to Sephardim one should make the Bracha of Moerei HaEsh before the megillah. [14]
  2. One should bring the Megillah on Shabbat to the shul since it’s considered preparing for after Shabbat. [15] If one needs to bring the Megillah to the shul after Shabbat one should say Baruch HaMavdil Ben Kodesh LeChol. [16]
  3. A Megillah isn’t Muktzeh even on the Shabbat when Purim falls out on Sunday. [17]
  4. Even if one’s meal extends into the night one doesn’t add Al HaNissim. [18]
  5. If the congregation didn’t yet say Kiddush Levana then they should say it before hearing the Megilla, however, if only individuals didn’t say it they should wait until after hearing Megilla together with the congregation. [19]

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 HaKochavim 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 HaKochavim.
  5. ↑ Mishna Brurah 687:3, Chazon Ovadyah (pg 48)
  6. ↑ Rav Schachter (Nefesh HaRav pg 227) writes that Rav Soloveitchik's minhag was to read the megillah to himself from a kosher megillah along with the baal koreh in order to fulfill the mitzvah himself instead of through a messenger. Rav Schachter explains this concept in BeIkvei HaTzoan pg 25.
  7. ↑ Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 688:7)
  8. ↑ Mishna Brurah 688:12
  9. ↑ Mishna Brurah 688:12
  10. ↑ Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 688:9)
  11. ↑ Mishna Brurah 688:12
  12. ↑ Mishna Brurah 688:12
  13. ↑ Rama 693:1, Natai Gavriel (purim 28:8)
  14. ↑ Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 693:3)
  15. ↑ Natai Gavriel 28:4, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 693:1)
  16. ↑ Natai Gavriel 28:7
  17. ↑ Natai Gavriel 28:4, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata
  18. ↑ Natai Gavriel 28:3
  19. ↑ Natai Gavriel 49:1, 3
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