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The Maimonides Minute
By Jewish Coffee HouseReligion & Spirituality
The Maimonides Minute episodes
- Hilchot Berachot 10:13-14 (Blessings inspired by natural wonders)What beracha does someone say when he encounters the wonders of nature?3 min
- Hilchot Berachot 10:9-10 (Blessings for miracles, seeing idolatry, and seeing graves)What beracha does one say upon seeing the location of a miracle that happened to Israel? What about a miracle that happened to an individual? What beracha does one say when seeing a house of idolatry, or a place from which idolatry was uprooted? What beracha does one say when seeing Jewish graves?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 10:7-8 (Birkat HaGomel - blessing of thanksgiving)What blessing should a person make when hearing news that is simultaneously good and bad (such as the death of a relative from whom he received a significant inherentance)? What four events require a blessing of thanksgiving? What is this blessing, and what are the conditions for saying it?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 10:5-6 (Berachot thanking G-d for rain)What blessing does a person say when abundant rain falls - and what is considered abundant rain? What are the differences between someone who directly benefits from the rain, like a farmer, and someone who doesn't own a field?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 10:3-4 (Blessings for good news and bad news)What is the beracha one makes on hearing either good or bad news? Should a person have a different attitude when making the beracha for bad news from that which he has when he hears good news? And what beracha should one make if the good news will eventually lead to problems, or the bad news has a future silver lining?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 10:1-2 (A blessing on seeing a friend)In today's shiur, we learn about the "Shehechiyanu" blessing, and when it is made - as well as when it isn't.3 min
- Hilchot Berachot 9:7-8 (Three types of fragrance on which one does not make a blessing)What are the three types of fragrance upon which one does not make a beracha? What are examples of each?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 9:5-6 (Walking into a fragrance store)If a person walks in a store that sells spices, what beracha does he make? At what point does he need to make a second beracha?3 min
- Hilchot Berachot 9:3-4 (Wiping hands on the waiter's head?!)What beracha does a person make over fragrant oil - and does it matter whether the oil has a natural fragrance or whether something was added to it?4 min
- Hilchot Berachot 9:1-2 (Berachot on fragrance)What are the various berachot that a person should make on different types of spices?3 min
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Make Judaism’s greatest thinker and Halachic scholar part of your life. Rabbi Scott Kahn presents two halachot from the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah every weekday.