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

middle of the shevarim, and certainly the other way around, and even if he didn’t
finish, or, if while blowing tekiah-teruah-tekiah he blew even a single shever in the
middle of the teruah, we say that these are completely foreign to the teruah being
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blown in this set and he therefore loses the first tekiah [as well]. We have
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already written that he only loses that set, but the sets which were completed
properly, count.

]15[ If he blew one set in a single breath, the matter is debated by the poskim
and [since it is] a doubt in a case of a Torah obligation [we rule] stringently. 47

]16[ Therefore, one must be careful in places where shuls are situated in close
proximity to one another, to ensure that they don’t blow shofar in one until the
first shul finishes [blowing]. Otherwise, he might hear the shofar out of order.
Even if he does not listen intending to fulfill the mitzva, nevertheless, since some
authorities hold that even one who happened to hear [another sound] loses the
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tekiahs he already heard, as above siman 11, therefore, one must be careful of
this.

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]17[ The main blasts of the shofar are [the ones] blown during musaf when

םדו רשב
45. Meaning that according to the way writes that one does indeed fulfill his
this set defines a teruah (i.e. shevarim or obligation, citing the Rabeinu Yeruchem who
teruah), the interrupting sound is considered rules that he does not, as a dissenting view.
foreign. This is also the opinion of the Gra, and
although the Rabeinu Yeruchem cites a Tosefta
46. See above, siman 11 and note 33 as support, the Ramban dismisses this as a
there. textual error. Nevertheless, the Chayei Adam
rules that one should blow again in order to
47. The Tur writes that it would seem that fulfill every opinion.
בכ
one who blows tekiah-teruah-tekiah (or any
other set) in a single breath (i.e. without 48. And note 31 there.
pausing) does not fulfill his obligation.
However, the Talmud Yerushalmi rules 49. Although the poskim do not discuss
otherwise and the Shulchan Aruch therefore the history of tekias shofar at length, see the

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