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# In the month of Adar there are 4 Parshiot that are read after the weekly פרשה each [[Shabbat]]. The maftir on the first [[Shabbat]] after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Adar is Parshat Shekalim. The maftir on the second [[Shabbat]] after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Adar is Parshat Zachor. The maftir on the third [[Shabbat]] after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Adar is Parshat Parah. The maftir on the four [[Shabbat]] after [[Rosh Chodesh]] Adar is Parshat HaChodesh. <Ref>S”A 685:1, Mishna Brurah 685:1 </ref>

# Parshat Shekalim is to remember the mitzvah to donate half-shkalim in the time of the Bet HaMikdash. Parshat Zachor is to remember the mitzvah of detstroying Amalek in proximity to the story of purim. Parshat Parah is in commemoration of the parah adumah done before the inauguration of Mishkan and serves as a prayer to be purified by Hashem. Parshat HaChodesh is to sanctify the new moon of Nissan (which is the beginning of the year in some respects) even though isn’t the primary sanctification of the moon. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 685:1 </ref>

# If one missed reading the פרשה of the week there’s no make up. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 685:2 </ref>

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<ref> S"A 586:1-6 </ref>

On the Shabbat before Rosh Chodesh Adar (Adar Bet in a Leap Year) we read the beginning of Parashat Ki Tisa for maftir because in the times of the Beit Hamikdash they would announce the obligation of machatzit hashekel. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 256 from Gemara Megilla 13b and 19a. see also Yerushalmi Megilla 1:5 where a connection is drawn between the half shekel and Purim. </ref>  

# For haftara we read vayichrot yehoyada, Melachim Bet Chapter 12, because there is discussion about the collection of shkalim. <ref> Tur and S"A 685:5, gemara Megilla 29b, Chazon Ovadia Purim page 1, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 256. </ref>

# In places where they have the custom to allow a child to go up to the torah for maftir of shkalim or hachodesh, one need not stop them because they have on whom to rely as long as the child knows who he is blessing and he is at least 6 years old. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 271, Birkei Yosef 284:2, Petach Hadvir 282:11. Sh"t Rivash 25 though says not to allow a child to go up for the aliya. </ref>  

# If the congregation forgot to read Parashat Shkalim and instead read the regular maftir, as long as it is still during the morning, even if they didn't remember until after Mussaf they should take out the torah and read Parashat Shkalim and say the berachot before and after. <ref> Sh"t Ginat Vradim Klal 1:35-36,Sh"t Perach Shoshan Klal 1:8, Sh"t Mishpatei Uziel OC 15 </ref> The haftara should be read without the berachot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 268, Chazon Ovadia Purim page 21 </ref>  

# Hearing Parshat Zachor is a biblical mitzvah. <ref>S”A 685:7. Chazon Ovadia Purim page 11 explains that although it is from the torah not blessing is recited because Hashem isn't pleased with the downfall of the wicked. </ref> It is read the week before Purim. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 258. Rashi Megilla 29a explains that this is because we want to read about amalek right before we read about Haman. ,/ref>  

# The mitzvah is to express this commemoration verbally and so the reader and those listening should intent to fulfill the obligation. <ref>Mishna Brurah 685:14 </ref>

# If one can’t make it to hear Parshat Zachor in a minyan one should read it with the Trup from a Sefer. <ref>Rama 685:7 </ref>

# Some say that the word Zecher (with Segol) and some say Zaycher (with Tzeyreh) and so it’s proper to read it twice. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 685:18 </ref> Some say that one should read the entire פסוק twice <ref> Moadim UZmanim (vol 2, siman 167), Piskei Teshuvot 685:9 </ref> while others say it’s enough to read the words Zecher Amalek or Timcheh Et Zecher Amalek a second time. <Ref>Kesot HaShulchan 88:22 in the notes, Kitzur S”A 88:22, Piskei Teshuvot 685:9, Sh”t Igrot Moshe 8:20:32 (pg 67). Piskei Shemuot (pg 40) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman as saying that either minhag is acceptable. Piskei Shemuot (39-40) quotes Rav Chaim Kanievsky as saying it’s enough to repeat a few words. </ref>

# When reading the פרשה of Zachor in Ki Tetse during the year the minhag is to read it Zaycher (with Tzeyreh). <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 685:9 </ref>

# An Ashkenazi shouldn’t hear Parshat Zachor from a Sephardic Baal Koreh and a Sephardi shouldn’t hear the Parshat Zachor from an Ashkenazic Baal Koreh. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 695:10, Sh"t Binyan Shlomo 54, Piskei Shemuot quoting Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Elyashiv </ref> and some say that this is only preferable but after the fact one has fulfilled one’s obligation. <ref> Rav Nassim Karlitz quoted in Piskei Shemuot (pg 41). Yalkut Yosef (Kriyat HaTorah pg 111 and Moadim pg 260) and Sh”t Yabea Omer 6:11 write that it’s proper for a Sephardi to hear it from a Sephardi. </ref>

# Some say that one should hear the same dialect of Hebrew one speaks and the minhag is to be concerned for this. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 695:10. Piskei Shemuot (pg 41) quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman saying that it’s not kavod tzibbur to read parshat zachor several times in different dialects. </ref>

# It’s important that one understands the general point and one fulfills one’s obligation even if one doesn’t understand every word. <Ref>Rav Elyashiv quoted in Piskei Shemuot (pg 34) </ref>

# Some say that if one misses one word one has not fulfilled one’s obligation <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 695:10, Mikrei Kodesh Purim Siman 7 </ref> while others hold that as long as one heard the main point of destroying amalek one has fulfilled one’s obligation. <ref>Halichot Shlomo 18:2</ref>

# Some say that the congregation should read along as the Baal Koreh reads Parshat Zachor, while others argue that one should listen quietly and such is the widespread minhag. <Ref>Sh”t Minchat Elazar 2:1 says that everyone should read it along with the Baal Koreh, while Sh”t Yechava Daat 3:53 (as well as Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 259 Meor Yisrael on Megilla 18a, and CHazon Ovadia Purim page 4) and Sh”t Meishiv Dvar OC 47 hold that everyone should listen quietly. Piskei Teshuvot 695:7 writes that the minhag is like the second opinion. </ref>

# If afterwards it’s found out that the Sefer Torah used for Parshat Zachor was pasul one doesn’t have to reread it. <ref>Halichot Shlomo (Moadim vol 2, 18:4) </ref>

# Someone who has already fulfilled his obligation can still read Zachor again for a different tzibbur. <ref> Chazon Ovadia Purim page 5. </ref>  

===Women===Some poskim permit taking out a sefer torah special for the women to fulfill their obligation but without a beracha. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Kriat Hatorah page 136, Chazon Ovadia Purim page 9 </ref>  

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