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Length: 21 minutes 24 seconds
Synopsis: I was originally going to record an episode for tomorrow, Tishah b'Av itself, but I ended up discussing the halachos of seudah ha'mafsekes (the concluding meal before the fast) with my chavrusa this afternoon, and decided to record an episode about that instead, hoping that some people will be able to hear it before Tishah b'Av starts for them. These thoughts are somewhat scattered, but even if you don't like the answers, hopefully you'll at least appreciate the questions!
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:ז-ט
שיעורי הרב על עניני תשעה באב (אליקים קניגסברג), סימן יב: גדר סעודה המפסקת 
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר שופטים, הלכול אבל יג:יב
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Length: 12 minutes 23 seconds
Synopsis: We conclude the fifth chapter of Hilchos Taaniyos with the halachos of tearing our garments when we encounter the Cities of Judah, Jerusalem, and the Mikdash in their states of destruction. The final halacha is about the status of these fast days in the time of Moshiach. I share a beautiful article from Rabbi Joshua Maroof on this topic and apply his insight to this final halacha in the Rambam.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:טז-יח
Rabbi Joshua Maroof, Is the Ninth of Av a Holiday?
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Length: 9 minutes 50 seconds
Synopsis: Today's halachos are about the enactments and decrees that Chazal set up to commemorate the destruction of the Mikdash and Yerushalayim. Some of these are familiar to us; others seem to no longer be practiced, or at least, are not as visible. Nevertheless, the halachos are here to guide us in how we should think about the destruction and its place in our lives.

Rambam on Music Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahYxvc4nSSc
Rambam on Music Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obwsr2IJ_Kg
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:יב-טו
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Length: 15 minutes 22 seconds
Synopsis: Today we finish the Rambam's halachos of Tishah b'Av itself, stopping to discuss an interesting minority manuscript and its implications. Tomorrow we'll move on to the next topic in the chapter: the commemorative practices that Chazal instituted to recall the destruction of the Mikdash.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:י-יא
CUL: T-S F7.46+
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Length: 7 minutes 52 seconds
Synopsis: We continue in Hilchos Taaniyos 5 with the halachos pertaining to the month of Av and Erev Tishah b'Av. As I said, we're keeping this in a "strictly bekius" mode for now to ensure that we finish the chapter before Tishah b'Av itself.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:ו-ט
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If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.
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Length: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Synopsis: We'll be taking another detour into the Laws of Fasts in order to prepare for Tishah b'Av, "Rambam Bekius style." Today we read the introductory halachos in which the Rambam tells us about each of the national fast days, why we fast on them, and what we're commemorating. Tomorrow we'll read the halachos about the period of time leading up to Tishah b'Av.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר זמנים, הלכות תעניות ה:א-ה
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Length: 12 minutes 2 seconds
Synopsis: Today we examine the Rambam's examples of the different ways that different people used to daven. There are some nuances in the Rambam's language that I never noticed before. We end off with a CORRECTED reading of the statement about facing Mikdash (which, turns out, I had been reading and teaching incorrectly for years). This will set us up for a bit of a deep dive into the halacha of facing the Mikdash, which we'll take up next week.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר אהבה, הלכות תפלה וברכת כהנים א:ב-ג
יד פשוטה שם
כסף משנה שם
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Length: 13 minutes 32 seconds
Synopsis: Today we reread the Rambam's formulation of the obligation of tefilah from the Torah and make several inferences from the nuances of his formulation. These nuances help us to know what the actual chiyuv de'oraisa is, and also shed further light on the nature of tefilah. And if anyone has a good answer to the question raised by the Lechem Mishneh on the Kesef Mishneh, please share!
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר אהבה, הלכות תפלה וברכת כהנים א:ב-ג
כסף משנה שם
לחם משנה שם
בירור הלכה - ברכות דף לב עמוד א
יד פשוטה שם
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If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.
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Length: 14 minutes 15 seconds
Synopsis: Well, THIS episode took an unexpected turn! I intended to just review one point we covered yesterday and read ten words from the Meiri on how to "make" God have mercy on you, but that little addition turned into a whole episode which touched upon the fundamental mechanisms of how tefilah works. We'll return to the halacha in the Mishneh Torah tomorrow.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר אהבה, הלכות תפלה וברכת כהנים א:ב
מאירי - אבות ב:יג
fake Thoreau quotation
רמב"ם - מורה הנבוכים א:נג
רלב"ג - שמות לג:יט
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The first month of the newly relaunched Rambam Bekius Podcast has been sponsored anonymously. May the merit of our learning make us worthy of Hashem's salvation, and may He deliver acheinu kol Beis Yisrael from all our enemies, in Israel and around the world.
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Length: 11 minutes 26 seconds
Synopsis: And we're BACK to "actual bekius"! In this episode we cover two topics: (a) my mini-rant on how publishers (a.k.a. doofuses) screwed up the Rambam's division of the mini-halachos, and (b) how to understand the Rambam's use of the phrase "mispalel u'mischanein" in his definition of the Torah obligation of tefilah.
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר אהבה, הלכות תפלה וברכת כהנים א:ב
יד פשוטה שם
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: הקדמה מא
רמב"ם - אבות ב:יג
רבינו יונה שם
רש"י - דברים ג:כג
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The first month of the newly relaunched Rambam Bekius Podcast has been sponsored anonymously. May the merit of our learning make us worthy of Hashem's salvation, and may He deliver acheinu kol Beis Yisrael from all our enemies, in Israel and around the world.
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If you would like to sponsor a day's or a week's worth of content, or if you are interested in enlisting my services as a teacher or tutor, you can reach me at rabbischneeweiss at gmail. Thank you to my listeners for listening, thank you to my readers for reading, and thank you to my supporters for supporting my efforts to make Torah ideas available and accessible to everyone.
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