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8 02, 2021

Megillah Over Zoom

February 8th, 2021|Orach Chayim, Purim|

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Can you please share your thoughts on megillah reading over Zoom and associated issues. Specifically:

Is one yotzei the mitzvah if they hear it read over Zoom? Must they follow, read along, and recite every word from a chumash? While there is no requirement for a minyan for keriat HaMegillah, do considerations of hearing it over Zoom change if there is a minyan present at the place of the reading?
Do all readers have to be physically present in the same place or could some read via Zoom from their home?
If readers reading remotely is

20 12, 2020

Dividing Up Megillat Esther When Reading by Zoom

December 20th, 2020|Orach Chayim, Purim|

QUESTION

Chicago, IL

Purim: Many of us learned last year that megillah can be heard via telephone or Zoom. Can it be read by someone who is also fulfilling his mitzvah, in part, over telephone or zoom? In other words, can three people divide up the megillah, each of them reading 1/3 of the megillah from a klaf, and each of them hearing 2/3 of the megillah over the phone.

In contrast, last year, the telephone broadcasting megillah was in the room where the megillah was read and everyone who read was

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