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Chayei Adam - K’lal 142 - The Order of the Tekiahs

to Rabeinu Tam one doesn’t moan and then cry in the same breath, nevertheless,
it is forbidden to pause more than a breath. 26

]11[ One fulfills his obligation even if he did not hear all of these blasts one
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after the other, but rather waited between hearing one blast and the next. [This
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is] provided he hears them in order. If however, he heard them out of order,
such as if he heard a teruah before the [first] tekiah or the like, he does not fulfill
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his obligation, as will be explained in the next siman. However, some say that
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this is only if he intended to hear the sound in order to fulfill the mitzva.
However, if he didn’t intend to fulfill the mitzva, such as if, for example, he heard
a tekiah, and then heard a teruah without intending it for the sake of the mitzva,
and then heard shevarim, etc. then, the fact that he heard a teruah before the
shevarim is inconsequential, because we look at it as if he heard the sound of an
animal, etc. [However,] some say that even if he just happened to hear [another
sound of the shofar] and didn’t intend it for the sake of the mitzva, it nevertheless
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interferes. The Magen Avraham rules leniently. There is no difference between

םדו רשב

single breath. (Mishna Berura) custom is for the makri to call out ‘shevarim -
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teruah’ before.
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26. Certainly, when blowing shevarim- 27. The gemara (Rosh Hashana 34b)
teruah in a single breath, one cannot pause teaches that if one hears the nine obligatory
between them and the makri (who calls out to
prompt the baal toke’ah as to which sounds to blasts of the shofar over a stretch of nine
hours, he fulfills his obligation.
blow) must say ‘shevarim-teruah’ beforehand.
However, during musaf when one blows them 28. The gemara qualifies that if nine
in two separate breaths (in fulfillment of the people blow the nine sounds at the same
opinion of Rabeinu Tam) there would time, he doesn’t fulfill his obligation. The
technically be time for the makri to say rishonim explain that this is because the nine
‘teruah’ between the shevarim and teruah, but blasts of the shofar must be sounded in order
practically, this would prove to be too much of (i.e. tekiah-teruah-tekiah - i.e. whatever the
a hefsek. Although the Taz simply writes that Torah defines as a teruah - three times) and
the baal toke’ah shouldn’t wait for the prompt blowing all of them simultaneously negates
and just blow on his own, the prevalent this.
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