[Avodah] When and Where to hear the Magila

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:05:01PM +0000, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
: From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis
...
:     A. ...                                                      Rav
:     Zylberstein (Chashukei Chemed, Megila 27b) rules that in this case,
:     it is proper to delay the mitzvah, so it can be performed b'rov
:     am. This is because joining together with a large crowd offers
:     a greater publicization of the miracle, which is a fundamental
:     component of the mitzvah of reading the Megillah. However, if one
:     is accustomed to davening with the Vasikin Minyan all week long,
:     they should daven there on Purim as well. This is because the Mishnah
:     Berurah (687:7) writes that one who has a makom kavua (set place to
:     daven) need not change their location to daven b'rov am.

Interesting. RYZ's hava amina was that berov am would trump kevasiqin,
if it weren't that it was your maqom qavua:
    maqom kavuah
    berov am
    kevasiqin

Of course, if someone were talking about berov am and leining Mon & Thu,
the first two concerns are intertwined. Qeri'as haTorah is frequent
enough for regularly davening kevasiqin to *define* one's maqom kavua.

This is really only an issue for people like myself, who want to daven
qevasiqin because it's Purim, and there is so much to do before the
se'udah.

I have a feeling or at least a hope that shalom bayis trumps all three...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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