The Maimonides Minute

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September 10, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 3:4-6 (The duration of the truah and shevarim sounds)
What are the minimum durations of the teruah and shevarim sounds? If a person blows a tekia that is double the normal length, may it count as two? What if an hour passes between one sound and the other?
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5min
September 09, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 3:1-3 (The definition of "teruah")
What is the "teruah" sound that the Torah requires us to blow on Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur of the Jubilee year?
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5min
September 05, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 2:9-10 (Blowing the shofar on Shabbat in front of a beit din)
What are the conditions necessary in order to blow the shofar on Shabbat Rosh Hashanah in front of a court? Are there any differences between the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah regarding shofar blowing?
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3min
September 04, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 2:7-8 (Places that must blow the shofar on Shabbat)
May a child practice blowing the shofar on yom tov? What about on Shabbat? And despite the Rabbinic decree forbidding blowing the shofar on Shabbat, what locations are not included in this prohibition, and must blow the shofar on Shabbat Rosh Hashanah?
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5min
September 03, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 2:4-6 (Blowing the shofar for someone else)
What are the conditions under which a person may blow the shofar and the listener can thereby fulfill his obligation? What is the reason that we do not blow the shofar on Shabbat?
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5min
September 02, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 2:1-3 (Someone who is exempt cannot do a mitzvah for someone with an obligation)
Who is obligated to hear the shofar, and who is exempt? Can a person who is not obligated to hear the shofar blow for someone who is? What are the various ramifications of this rule?
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5min
August 29, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 1:7-8 (Blowing a shofar and the sound is thick, thin, or dry - is that OK?)
Can a person cut a shofar to make it shorter? Can he scrape the inside to make its walls thinner? If the sound of the shofar is thick, thin, or dry, has the listener fulfilled his obligation? What if he hears the echo of a shofar rather than the shofar sound itself?
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3min
August 28, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 1:5-6 (Types of acceptable and unacceptable shofarot)
What is the minimum length of a shofar? May a person use a shofar that is cracked? What about a shofar with extra holes, or with a gold covering? And may a damaged shofar be fixed?
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5min
August 27, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 1:3-4 (Using a stolen shofar)
May a person use a shofar that was once used in idolatrous practices? How about a stolen shofar? Can one violate a rabbinic prohibition on Rosh Hashanah in order to bring a shofar to the synagogue?
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6min
August 26, 2019 Hilchot Shofar 1:1-2 (What kind of horn is acceptable for use as a shofar?)
How do we know that a shofar must be used on Rosh Hashanah? (The Torah never explicitly mentions a shofar regarding Rosh Hashanah.) What kind of animal's horn is acceptable? How was shofar blowing fundamentally different in the Beit HaMikdash?
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4min

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The podcast currently has 1,454 episodes available.