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===Sitting or Standing=== | ===Sitting or Standing=== | ||
# The reader of the megilla for the congregation should stand during the reading of the Megilla <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:1, Beit Yosef 690 in the name of the Ran</ref> and the congregants may sit during the reading. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:1, Ben Ish Chai (Year 1 Parashat Titzaveh 4) </ref> However, the congregation should stand for the [[berachot]] before and after the [[Megillah]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 690:1, Machatzit Hashekel 690:1, Ben Ish Chai (Parashat Titzaveh 4), Kaf Hachaim 690:2. See Shevet Hakehati 1:212. </ref> | # The reader of the megilla for the congregation should stand during the reading of the Megilla <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:1, Beit Yosef 690 in the name of the Ran</ref> and the congregants may sit during the reading.<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 690:1, Ben Ish Chai (Year 1 Parashat Titzaveh 4) </ref> However, the congregation should stand for the [[berachot]] before and after the [[Megillah]].<ref> Mishna Brurah 690:1, Machatzit Hashekel 690:1, Ben Ish Chai (Parashat Titzaveh 4), Kaf Hachaim 690:2. See Shevet Hakehati 1:212. </ref> | ||
===Hearing it in a Congregation=== | ===Hearing it in a Congregation=== | ||
# One should try to find a [[minyan]] of ten men to read the [[megillah]]. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:18, Bach 691 </ref> If this is not possible, one should read the [[Megillah]] by himself <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:18, Mishna Brurah 689:15, Shaar Hatzion 690:64 </ref> | # One should try to find a [[minyan]] of ten men to read the [[megillah]].<ref> Shulchan Aruch O.C. 690:18, Bach 691 </ref> If this is not possible, one should read the [[Megillah]] by himself <ref> Shulchan Aruch 690:18, Mishna Brurah 689:15, Shaar Hatzion 690:64 </ref> | ||
# Some have the pious practice to read from a kosher [[megillah]] along with the baal koreh. <ref>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. </ref> | # Some have the pious practice to read from a kosher [[megillah]] along with the baal koreh.<ref>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. </ref> | ||
# One should not hear the reading of the megilla over a microphone <ref> Daat Torah 689, Sh"t Minchat Yitzchak 1:37 and 3:54 </ref> | # One should not hear the reading of the megilla over a microphone <ref> Daat Torah 689, Sh"t Minchat Yitzchak 1:37 and 3:54 </ref> | ||
# One should not talk during the megilla reading.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 692:2</ref> | # One should not talk during the megilla reading.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 692:2</ref> | ||
===Breaking it Up== | |||
# Initially one should not break up the megillah and one person should read the whole thing. In extenuating circumstances it is permitted.<ref>[http://www.torahweb.org/torah/docs/rsch/RavSchachter-Corona-56-January-31-2021.pdf Rav Schachter (Corona teshuva #56)]</ref> | |||
==Time of Reading Megillah== | ==Time of Reading Megillah== | ||
