{"id":20416,"date":"2016-03-20T03:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T07:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyzohar.com\/?p=20416"},"modified":"2016-03-20T03:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T07:26:35","slug":"the-reading-of-megilat-esther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?p=20416","title":{"rendered":"The reading of Megilat Esther"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people in the world who don&rsquo;t have a Jewish community to join and listen to the reading of the scroll of Esther on the day of Purim.<\/p>\n<p>The DailyZohar received from the Brandwein family the recording of the megillah reading by Rabbi Avraham Brandwein ZT&rdquo;L, son of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein, ZT&rdquo;L.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&rsquo;t forget to make the Half-a-Shekel connection. It can be done anytime before <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Rosh Chodesh&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Hebrew &amp;quot;&#1512;&#1488;&#1513; &#1495;&#1493;&#1491;&#1513;,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Rosh Chodesh,&amp;quot; literally means &amp;quot;the head of the month,&amp;quot; new moon.The first day of the Hebrew month. The day of the new moon or immediately after. When the new moon starts on the last day of the month, we celebrate two days of Rosh Chodesh. In such a case, the second day is always the first day of the new month.On Rosh Chodesh, a new light appears in the world, and as the celestial element closer to earth, we are strongly affected by its position to other planets and distance from earth.It&amp;#039;s a positive day, and we make more studies and spiritual connections to draw greater Light on this day. In the Holy Temple, the priest sacrificed a goat to give the other side something to get busy with while we benefit from the Light revealed on that day. It&amp;#039;s a good day to give Tzedakah and light candles for Tzadikim. Even if there is no hilulah of Tzadikim on that day, some have the custom to light a candle for Rabbi Meir Baal Haness to receive protection and miracles during the coming month&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?glossary=rosh-chodesh-2\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Rosh Chodesh<\/a> Nisan but it is better to do it before the reading of the Megilah on Purim. See detailed explanation here:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/the-reading-of-megilat-esther\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Half a Shekel &ndash; Connection to Light and Life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please share this link with your friends. When you share Light you receive Light.<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159664081\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people in the world who don&rsquo;t have a Jewish community to join and listen to the reading of the scroll of Esther on the day of Purim.<\/p>\n<p>The DailyZohar received from the Brandwein family the recording of the megilah reading by Rabbi Avraham Brandwein ZT&quot;L, son of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi brandwein, ZT&quot;L. <\/p>\n<p>Please don&rsquo;t forget to make the Half-a-Shekel connection. It can be done anytime before <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Rosh Chodesh&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Hebrew &amp;quot;&#1512;&#1488;&#1513; &#1495;&#1493;&#1491;&#1513;,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Rosh Chodesh,&amp;quot; literally means &amp;quot;the head of the month,&amp;quot; new moon.The first day of the Hebrew month. The day of the new moon or immediately after. When the new moon starts on the last day of the month, we celebrate two days of Rosh Chodesh. In such a case, the second day is always the first day of the new month.On Rosh Chodesh, a new light appears in the world, and as the celestial element closer to earth, we are strongly affected by its position to other planets and distance from earth.It&amp;#039;s a positive day, and we make more studies and spiritual connections to draw greater Light on this day. In the Holy Temple, the priest sacrificed a goat to give the other side something to get busy with while we benefit from the Light revealed on that day. It&amp;#039;s a good day to give Tzedakah and light candles for Tzadikim. Even if there is no hilulah of Tzadikim on that day, some have the custom to light a candle for Rabbi Meir Baal Haness to receive protection and miracles during the coming month&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?glossary=rosh-chodesh-2\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Rosh Chodesh<\/a> Nisan but it is better to do it before the reading of the Megilah on Purim. See detailed explanation here:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/half-a-shekel-explanation-and-meditation-on-how-to-make-this-high-spiritual-connection\/\">https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/half-a-shekel-explanation-and-meditation-on-how-to-make-this-high-spiritual-connection\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please share this link with your friends. When you share Light you receive Light.<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159664081\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7122,7123,7124,7125,7126,9450,7127,7128,4809,4056],"class_list":["post-20416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-brandwein-family","tag-half-a-shekel-connection","tag-megilah-on-purim","tag-megilah-reading","tag-rabbi-avraham-brandwein","tag-rabbi-yehuda-tzvi-brandwein","tag-reading-of-the-scroll-of-esther","tag-receive-light","tag-rosh-chodesh-nisan","tag-share-light","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The reading of Megilat Esther - Daily Zohar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The reading of Megilat Esther\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are many people in the world who don&#039;t have a Jewish community to join and listen to the reading of the scroll of Esther on the day of Purim. 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