[Avodah] Bracha on Megillah

[D&E-H Bannett]

In my shul they read all the megilot from klaf and with 
b'rakhot.  Once I was asked to read and refused because, as 
there is no universal minhag to read the megillot in shul on 
yomtov, I didn't agree to say the  b'rakhot.

Some years later a gabbai asked me to read Eikha on tish'a 
b'av from a klaf (new gabbai). This time I had an even 
better refusal. I said I would agree only if he insisted 
that I make both mikra megilla and shehecheyanu as they do 
on the other megilot.


David