{"id":5905,"date":"2010-02-15T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2018-02-26T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:49:00","slug":"05-15-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/05-15-06\/","title":{"rendered":"06. When to Read the Megilla<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

One must read the Megilla<\/em> at night and again during the day, to commemorate the fact that the Jews cried out to God in their time of need during the day and at night (Megilla<\/em> 4a; Rashi ad loc.<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The nighttime Megilla<\/em> reading may take place at any point during the night \u2013 from tzeit<\/em> to alot ha-sha\u0125ar<\/em> \u2013 while the daytime reading may take place an time during the day \u2013 from sunrise (and be-di\u2019avad<\/em>, from alot ha-sha\u0125ar<\/em>) until shki\u2019a<\/em>. However, the zealous perform mitzvot<\/em> promptly, reading the Megilla<\/em> at night immediately after Ma\u2019ariv<\/em> and during the day immediately after Sha\u0125arit<\/em> (sa 687:1, 693:1, 693:4).<\/p>\n

One may not eat or sleep before reading the Megilla<\/em> at night. Studying Torah, however, is permissible. One who finds it difficult to extend Ta\u2019anit Esther until after the Megilla<\/em> reading may drink beforehand, on condition that he avoids intoxicating drinks. Similarly, one who is very hungry may eat a snack before Megilla<\/em> reading. That is, he may eat as much fruit as he wants and up to an egg\u2019s volume (kebeitza<\/em>) of grain-based (mezonot<\/em>) foods (sa 232:3, mb ad loc. <\/em>35; Rema 692:4, ma ad loc. <\/em>7, mb ad loc. <\/em>14-15).<\/p>\n

The same laws apply to the daytime reading. However, since this reading takes place immediately after Sha\u0125arit<\/em>, one must also be careful about all the prohibitions that apply prior to Sha\u0125arit<\/em>, which are more stringent. Nonetheless, one who already prayed Sha\u0125arit<\/em> and has yet to hear the Megilla<\/em> should not eat before fulfilling the mitzva. Under pressing circumstances, however, one may eat a snack before hearing the Megilla<\/em>. Likewise, a woman may not eat before hearing the Megilla<\/em>. If she is very hungry, she may eat a snack, but not a full meal (mb 692:15-16; in a time of very great need, she may ask someone to remind her to hear the Megilla<\/em>, and then she may eat a full meal before the reading).<\/p>\n

Some of the greatest Rishonim maintain that the mitzva of reading the Megilla<\/em> and publicizing the miracle is primarily fulfilled during the day, like all the other mitzvot<\/em> of Purim. Therefore, one must be more meticulous about the daytime reading and make an even greater effort to read it in the presence of a large group of people, or at least a minyan<\/em>.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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\n[5]<\/a>. See Megilla<\/em> 4a and Berur Halakha ad loc<\/em>. Tosafot<\/em> and Rosh ad loc. <\/em>state that the mitzva of reading the Megilla <\/em>and publicizing the miracle is primarily fulfilled during the day. According to Ran, the villagers who read earlier \u2013 on the \u201cday of assembly,\u201d i.e., the Monday or Thursday before Purim \u2013 do not have to read the Megilla<\/em> at night at all. Rashba and Ritva maintain that the enactment was for the villagers to read the Megilla <\/em>on the day of assembly with a minyan<\/em>, while they would read it at night in their hometowns without a minyan<\/em>. The only point of disagreement between Rashba and Ritva is which night the villagers would read the Megilla<\/em>: Rashba maintains that they would read it on the night before the day of assembly, whereas Ritva maintains that they would read it on the night of Purim itself. Noda Bi-Yehuda<\/em> 1:41 and Turei Even<\/em>, Megilla<\/em> 4a state that the law of the daytime reading is mi-divrei kabbala<\/em>, while the nighttime reading is merely a rabbinic decree. Yabi\u2019a Omer<\/em>, o\u0125 1:43:13 suggests that Ohel Mo\u2019ed<\/em>, Or Zaru\u2019a<\/em>, and Ran share this opinion. However, according to Roke\u2019a\u0125<\/em>, Rashba, and Ritva, the nighttime reading is also mi-divrei kabbala<\/em> (though a minyan<\/em> is not required at night, because the miracle is publicized primarily during the day). Rambam and sa seemingly maintain that there is no difference between the nighttime and daytime obligations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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