In every community in which I have heard Megillah, it seems customary to hiss whenever Zeresh is mentioned (in fact I have a mesorah from my father to do so).
Are there any sources which mention this practice and why it was done?
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Sign up to join this communityIn every community in which I have heard Megillah, it seems customary to hiss whenever Zeresh is mentioned (in fact I have a mesorah from my father to do so).
Are there any sources which mention this practice and why it was done?
Sefer Shibolei HaLeket, Siman 200 (as cited by Bachrach44 earlier) brings this custom in connection with both names of Haman and Zeresh in the piyyut after and not during the Megillah reading. Perhaps this (for some reason) has evolved later occurring also during the reading of Megillah itself.
מצאתי בשם רבינו שלמה זצ"ל יש מקומות שאומרים אחר הברכה פיוט נאה כגון אשר הניא ואומר ברוך מרדכי ברוכה אסתר ארור המן ארורה זרש ומכין ברגליהן או אבן על אבן ומשברין קדירות כשמעם שבר המן וזרש ולאחר זה עומדין הצבור ומשבחין לבורא אשר הציל את עמו ישראל