Chapter 141 – Regarding the Reading of the Megillah (Tenth Tractate of Mishnah in the Order Moed)
141.1) Your joys increase when the month of Adar arrives. Lawsuits with non-Jews should occur during this month.
141.2) Fast on the thirteenth day of Adar.
141.3) Purim is the fourteenth day of Adar.
141.4) Show reverence to Megillah by putting on your best clothes to go to synagogue and make sure your house is in order.
141.5) Donate one half the unit coin of a county before Purim commences.
141.6) Include Al Hanissim in services as at Hanukkah (Festival of Lights).
141.7) You are obligated to hear Megillah in the evening and the morning.
141.8) Do not read Megillah at night before the stars appear.
141.9) Try to go to synagogue to hear the Megillah so you are with a number of people.
141.10) The Megillah should be folded like a letter.
141.11) The reader of Megillah should pronounce three benedictions.
141.12) When saying daytime Sheheheyanu include the precept of sending portions to friends and gifts to the needy.
141.13) The reader of Megillah should intend to exempt listeners from reading it.
141.14) The reader should recite the names of the ten sons of Hamor.
141.15) Do not recite with the reader if your Megillah is not valid.
141.16) If someone reads to you the Megillah for your benefit, you should say the benedictions.
141.17) You may handle a Megillah on the Sabbath on which Purim does not occur.
141.18) If no one in the congregation can read the Megillah with the proper intonation it should be read anyway.
141.19) If a congregation has no valid Megillah, they may read from what they have.
141.20) Mourners may not observe festivities of Purim during the first seven days of mourning.
141.21) If you lose a family member on the Fast of Esther, and are a oman at night, listen to the Magillah and fast.
141.22) Arrive early in the morning to go to synagogue.
141.23) If you live in a city surrounded by a wall that has been there since Joshua, read the Megillah on the fifteenth day of the month.