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- The Laws of Purim
Therefore, one who is in quarantine because of the Coronavirus and cannot go to the synagogue to hear the Megillah, should act in accordance with the following options listed in order of priority:
1. One should arrange for someone to read the Megillah close to one's home such that one will hear the reading directly, while maintaining the separation required for quarantine per the instructions of the local medical authorities.
2. One should read the Megillah himself out of a kosher scroll. One may use a recording of the reading for assistance and read along with the recording using the scroll. We can provide a link to a recording of the reading specifically designed for easy use in this scenario (contact: [email protected]).
3. One should hear the reading of the Megillah via a live broadcast, such as over the telephone or computer. One may answer "amen" to the blessings of the reader,5 but should not recite them oneself.
The custom is that one who reads the Megillah privately does not recite the blessing of "harav et rivenu" following the reading.6
^ 1.Responsa Minchat Shlomo 1:9; Responsa Yechaveh Daat 3:54; Responsa Minchat Yitzchak 3:38,16, and others. The ruling in Responsa Bemareh Habazak 1:26 is that one should not be lenient under normal circumstances. See further, Responsa Bemareh Habazak 5:62
regarding places where the practice is to read the megillah with a microphone.
^ 2.Responsa Minchat Elazar 2:72
^ 3.See Responsa Igrot Moshe O"C 2:108, O"C 4:91; Responsa Tzitz Eliezer 8:11; see further Responsa Minchat Shlomo (ibid.) in the footnotes, who indicates that the Chazon Ish was also unsure of this.
^ 4.We understand that this is also the ruling of Rabbi Herschel Schachter for those asking in the United States.
^ 5. Responsa Igrot Moshe O"C 4:91; Responsa Yechaveh Daat 2:68; see also Piskei Teshuvot 215:3
^ 6.Shulchan Aruch O"C 692:1; see also Piskei Teshuvot 692:4
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