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==The Bracha== | ==The Bracha== | ||
# 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. <ref> Sh" | # 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. <ref> Sh"t Yabea Omer O"C 1:40 </ref> | ||
==Time of the readings== | ==Time of the readings== | ||
# There’s a mitzvah to read the Megillah once at night and once during the day. <Ref>Megillah 4a, S”A 687:1 </ref> | # There’s a mitzvah to read the Megillah once at night and once during the day. <Ref>Megillah 4a, S”A 687:1 </ref> | ||
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# 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. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 688:12 </ref> | # 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. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 688:12 </ref> | ||
# 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. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 688:12 </ref> | # 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. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 688:12 </ref> | ||
==If Purim Falls out on Sunday== | |||
# If Purim falls out on Saturday night then one should read the megillah and then say VeYehe Noam, and then make Havdalah. <Ref>Rama 693:1, Natai Gavriel (purim 28:8) </ref> According to Sephardim one should make the Bracha of Moerei HaEsh before the megillah. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 693:3) </ref> | |||
# One should bring the Megillah on [[Shabbat]] to the shul since it’s considered preparing for after [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Natai Gavriel 28:4, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S”A 693:1) </ref> If one needs to bring the Megillah to the shul after [[Shabbat]] one should say Baruch HaMavdil Ben Kodesh LeChol. <Ref>Natai Gavriel 28:7 </ref> | |||
# A Megillah isn’t Muktzeh even on the [[Shabbat]] when Purim falls out on Sunday. <Ref>Natai Gavriel 28:4, Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata </ref> | |||
# Even if one’s meal extends into the night one doesn’t add Al HaNissim. <Ref>Natai Gavriel 28:3 </ref> | |||
# 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. <Ref>Natai Gavriel 49:1, 3 </ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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