Question:
Can you please elaborate on the seder hayom for Purim meshulash in Yerushalayim?
14th Adar (Thursday night)
• Shabbos clothes should be worn, even though it is not technically Purim .
• Ma’ariv is davened as usual, without al hanissim.
• After the amidah, Kaddish tiskabel is recited, then the megillah is leined as on a regular Purim, including three brochos prior to the megillah and the brocho of harov… and the piyyut of asher heini after the megillah.
• After leining the megillah Ma’ariv proceeds with v’atoh kodosh followed by Kaddish sholeim bli tiskabel, as on a regular Purim night.
• Unusually for Yerushalayim, megillah is leined on the night following ta’anis esther. Consequently, one should remember not to break one’s fast and eat before keriyas megillah. Even those who are not fasting should ideally not eat anything from nightfall on Thursday night until after hearing the megillah.
• Ladies who for various reasons attend smaller megillah reading’s in private houses should make an extra effort this year to hear megillah where there is a minyan, or at least ten ladies together.
• Even if one hears the megillah not in the presence of a minyan can and should recite the brochos before the megillah .
14th Adar (Friday morning)
• Shabbos clothes should be worn.
• Shacharis is davened as usual, without the recital of al hanissim.
• After chazoras hashatz, tachanun is not recited. Chatzi Kaddish is recited, followed by the megillah. (There is no keriyas hatorah.)
• The megillah is leined with three brochos, as the previous night.
• One should have in mind that the brocho of shehechiyonu is also exempting the mitzva of matonos lo’evyonim later that day, and the other mitzvos of Purim which will take place on Sunday.
• After the megillah Shacharis proceeds with Ashrei. The shir shel yom (according to all customs) is the shir shel yom of Friday.
• The mitzva of matonos lo’evyonim applies today.
• Although the mitzvos of se’udas Purim and mishloach monos are pushed off until Sunday according to most opinions, since there are opinions who maintain that se’udas Purim and mishloach monos are preceded to the 14th of Adar some pious individuals fulfil these mitzvos today (as well as on Sunday). Care should be taken to begin the se’udo before chatzos.
15th Adar (Friday night)
• Ma’ariv of Shabbos is davened as usual with al hanissim.
• Al hanissim should also be recited in birkas hamozon.
15th Adar (Shabbos day)
• Shacharis of Shabbos is davened as usual, with al hanissim.
• Two sifrei Torah are taken out, the first for the regular sedrah (Tetzaveh) and the second for Maftir.
• The Maftir leins the parsha of “vayovo Amalek” (which is the regular leining for Purim morning.)
• Haftoro is from Shmuel Aleph, and identical to the previous Shabbos (Parshas Zochor).
• Av Harachamim is not recited.
• Shir shel yom of Shabbos is recited.
• Although, as mentioned above, according to most opinions the mitzvos of se’udas Purim and mishloach monos are pushed off until Sunday, the opinion of the Maharalbach is that these mitzvos should be fulfilled on Shabbos itself. Many are choshesh for this opinion and give/send one mishlo’ach monos on Shabbos (within an area where there is an eruv) and have intention that the regular se’udas Shabbos should also be a fulfilment of se’udas Purim. (The minhag is to increase in the regular se’udas Shabbos, and not to have a separate se’udah for se’udas Purim.)
• One interesting detail that is actually din d’gemoro is that when Purim falls on Shabbos, there is a mitzvo to be “sho’alim v’dorshim” about Purim on Shabbos itself.
• According to some Poskim , the megillah is muktzeh on this Shabbos specifically.
16th Adar (Sunday)
• Shabbos clothes are worn .
• Shacharis is davened as normal, without Tachanun and Lamnatzei’ach .
• Mishlo’ach monos are sent today.
• Se’udas Purim is eaten today. As with a regular year, the predominant minhag is to first daven Mincha and then to have se’udas Purim while it is still day. Very unusually, al hanissim is not recited after se’udas Purim, even if birkas hamozon is recited while it is still day. |