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The Maimonides Minute
By Jewish Coffee HouseReligion & Spirituality
The Maimonides Minute episodes
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Tefilah 1:3-4 (The historical transition to formal prayer services)According to the Rambam, daily prayer is a Torah requirement, but formal prayer - with a set text and mandated at specific times of the day - is not. Why did Ezra decide to formalize the prayer service? What historical issue was he trying to address?5 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Tefilah 1:3-4 (The historical transition to formal prayer services)According to the Rambam, daily prayer is a Torah requirement, but formal prayer - with a set text and mandated at specific times of the day - is not. Why did Ezra decide to formalize the prayer service? What historical issue was he trying to address?5 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Tefilah 1:1-2 (Is There a Commandment to Pray?)Is there a Torah commandment to pray, or is it a Rabbinic requirement? Must women pray every day, or are they exempt, as they are from other time-caused positive mitzvot?4 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Tefilah 1:1-2 (Is There a Commandment to Pray?)Is there a Torah commandment to pray, or is it a Rabbinic requirement? Must women pray every day, or are they exempt, as they are from other time-caused positive mitzvot?4 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Tefilah 1:1-2 (Is There a Commandment to Pray?)Is there a Torah commandment to pray, or is it a Rabbinic requirement? Must women pray every day, or are they exempt, as they are from other time-caused positive mitzvot?4 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Kriat Shma 4:7-8 (Exemption or Prohibition?)Although a person about to bury his relative is exempt from mitzvot, is he allowed to say Kriat Shma if he so desires? The Rambam and the Raavad have very different approaches to this question.6 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Kriat Shma 4:7-8 (Exemption or Prohibition?)Although a person about to bury his relative is exempt from mitzvot, is he allowed to say Kriat Shma if he so desires? The Rambam and the Raavad have very different approaches to this question.6 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Kriat Shma 4:7-8 (Exemption or Prohibition?)Although a person about to bury his relative is exempt from mitzvot, is he allowed to say Kriat Shma if he so desires? The Rambam and the Raavad have very different approaches to this question.6 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Kriat Shma 4:5-6 (Saying Shma vs. Comforting a Mourner)If the time for Kriat Shma arrives during a eulogy, what should one do? And if the time for Kriat Shma arrives after the burial, but before one has had a chance to comfort the mourners, what takes precedence?5 min
- Maimonides Minute - Hilchot Kriat Shma 4:5-6 (Saying Shma vs. Comforting a Mourner)If the time for Kriat Shma arrives during a eulogy, what should one do? And if the time for Kriat Shma arrives after the burial, but before one has had a chance to comfort the mourners, what takes precedence?5 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.