Reading the Megillah: Difference between revisions
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# 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> | # 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. Rav Gedalya Dov Schwartz (Hadarom v. 77 5782) writes that soldiers in Iraq who didn't have any way to be yotzei megilah unless they heard it on the phone could rely on the poskim who allow that.</ref> | ||
# One should not talk during the megilla reading.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 692:2</ref> | # One should not talk during the megilla reading.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 692:2</ref> | ||
===Breaking it Up=== | ===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> | # 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> | ||
