Megillah Reading 2025. The remaining two chapters discuss laws of public reading of the torah and prophets, public prayer, and treatment and selling of sacred objects and synagogues. Thus holiday observances begin at sunset of the first secular date listed (with the purim night megillah reading taking place that evening), and the holiday concludes at nightfall the following.

Megillat esther, “the scroll of esther,” is a firsthand account of the events of purim, written by the heroes themselves—esther and mordechai. Once on the eve of purim and again on the day of purim.