Editing Purim (section)

==== Order of Prayer ====
Before the evening prayer and morning prayer, it is forbidden to eat until reading the Megillah. In each of the holiday prayers and also in Grace After Meals, we add in the "Modim" blessing of the Shemoneh Esrei prayer, the prayer "V'al Hanissim... in the days of Mordechai and Esther..." (see text box). One should not announce this addition verbally but rather by tapping on the table, and it is preferable that one of the gabbaim recite this section aloud when he reaches it. If a person forgot to say "V'al Hanissim" and remembered before saying "Baruch Atah Hashem," he should say it in its proper place, but if he remembered after mentioning Hashem's name but before "Yihyu L'ratzon," he should say "Harachaman Hu ya'aseh lanu nissim v'nifla'ot k'shem she'asita la'avoteinu bayamim hahem bazman hazeh, bimei Mordechai v'Esther..." (In Grace After Meals, if he forgot, he says "V'al Hanissim" before "Harachaman Hu yezakenu"). Also, we do not say "Tachanun" and "E-l Erech Apayim" in the prayer.

In the morning prayer of the holiday, we read from the Torah in Parshat Beshalach about the destruction of Amalek (Exodus 17:8-16) and remembering him. Three people are called to the Torah and each one reads three verses. Additionally, one who did not hear Parshat Zachor can fulfill his obligation with this Torah reading. Also, one can give the half-shekel if it was not given on Ta'anit Esther.

Afterward, we read the Megillah (still wearing Rashi's tefillin). We do not say Hallel on this holiday despite the miracle that occurred. The Gemara presents several reasons for this:

# Because we do not say "Hallel" for a miracle that happened outside the Land of Israel.
# The reading of the Megillah itself is considered as "Hallel."