As you well know our family and I will be visiting my mother on Purim who is living with a few other women in a home in Mexico City. Sadly they don’t have one who should read the megila for them. Can I, her daughter read it for them? How about also reciting the brachot?
A. Poskim write that on the onset a woman should not read the megila by herself, rather she should hear it from a proper trained Baal Koreh (qualified expert reader) in a shul minyan. (Magen Avrohom 689: 6 - Eliahu Rabbah ibid 3, Ben Ish Chay Tetzave 1, adding that we don’t usually witness that women read in a women’s public the megila (in Orthodox circles).
However, if she does not have one to read for her, she should actually do so, with a kosher megila and recite the blessings.
Therefore, in your case if there is no other alternative, you can read the megila for your mother, when reciting the proper blessing.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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