Special Reading from the Prophets for Shabbat and Holidays

Which Sections May Not be Read

Which Sections May Not be Translated

Monday and Thursday: Megillah 21a

Shabbat Afternoon: Megillah 21a

On the First of the Month: Megillah 21a

On the Intermediate Days of Holidays: Megillah 21a

On Holidays: Megillah 21a

On the Day of Atonement: Megillah 21a

On Shabbat: Megillah 21a

Hashem promised King David that we would use his name [in the Blessing]: Pesachim 117b

The "Magen Dovid" Blessing is parallel to "Matzmiach Keren Yeshuah [Who Nurtures the Horn/Base of Salvation]" of the Amidah, except that the latter is a request and this is praise: Pesachim 117b

Allowing a minor to read: Megillah 24a

The reader is also called up to the Torah, out of respect for the Torah: Megillah 23a-b

Having the reader of the Prophets also lead a special service skipping part of the Blessings of the Shema: Megillah 24a-b

Having the reader of the Prophets also lead the raising of the hands of the Kohanim to conduct a blessing to the people: Megillah 24a-b

Having the reader of the Prophets also lead the general prayers; if he is a minor, who replaces him: Megillah 24a-b

How many readers one can have simultaneously: Megillah 21b

Whether the number of people called up includes the person called up for the Special Reading from the Prophets: Megillah 23a

Requiring a quorum: Megillah 23b

Minimum number of verses: Megillah 23a-b

Reading less than 21, if that completes a topic: Megillah 23b

Reading less than 21 if there is a translator: Megillah 23b

Skipping verses: Megillah 24a

Backtracking verses: Megillah 24a

Skipping between two topics, as opposed to within a topic: Megillah 24a

How many translators one can have simultaneously: Megillah 21b

The maximum number of verses which may be read before the translation begins: Megillah 24a

For Shabbat which is the First of the Month: Megillah 31a

For Shabbat which is the day before the First of the Month: Megillah 31a

The first days of Pesach: Megillah 31a

Shabbat of the intermediate days of Pesach: Megillah 31a

The last days of Pesach: Megillah 31a

Shavuot: Megillah 31a

Shabbat which is the 1st of Av: Megillah 31b

On the 9th of Av: Megillah 31b

Rosh HaShanah: Megillah 31a

Yom Kippur: Megillah 31a

The afternoon of Yom Kippur: Megillah 31a

The first days of Succot: Megillah 31a

Shabbat of the intermediate days of Succot: Megillah 31a

The last days of Succot: Megillah 31a

The [2] Shabbat[ot] of Chanukah: Megillah 31a

For the special 4 Torah Readings around the month of Adar: Megillah 30a

If Shabbat is also the 1st of Adar: Megillah 29b, 30a



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