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Chayei Adam - K’lal 140 - The Laws of the Shofar

[returns to] the way it was before [it developed a hole]. Since most of it was not
left intact, it lost it status of a shofar and only became a shofar by virtue of the
plug, in which case it is a shofar together with something else, or two shofars,
which is not valid. However, if most of the shofar was still intact, some require
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two other conditions, which are: (a) that the plug must be made of a like
species, meaning a piece of a horn, in which case, because most [of the shofar]
was intact, [the plug] is nullified to the shofar, but an unlike species is never
nullified and is not valid since it is a shofar along with something else, and (b)
even if it was mostly intact and the hole was sealed with a like material, its sound
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must return to the sound [it produced] before it developed a hole, for
otherwise, since the sound changed, the plug is not [considered] nullified.
Accordingly, there are three conditions: (1) that most of the shofar remains intact,
(2) the sound returns to the way it was before the hole developed, (3) it is sealed
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with a like species. Under extenuating circumstances, if there is no other shofar,
one may rely on the authorities who maintain that two of these conditions are
sufficient, [meaning that] either most of the shofar remained intact and it was
sealed with a like species, even if the sound is not restored to its previous sound,

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how to understand our mishna: The Ran minority portion of the shofar; (2) the hole is
understands that the mishna follows the filled with a piece of shofar; and (3) the
opinion of R’ Nosson, and that when the sound it produces replicates the sound it
beraisa qualifies that the sound is not affected, made before the hole developed.
it means after it is sealed, the sound reverts The Rosh however understands that the
back to what it was like before the hole tana kama and R’ Nosson only disagree where
developed. This is because the stopper is then the sound of the shofar is affected.
batul to the shofar and becomes part of it. If Accordingly, the mishna which invalidates the
however the sound is affected, then we view it shofar if its sound is affected, follows R’
as a sound being produced by ‘two shofars’ Nosson, and only if the stopper was made of a
and it is not valid. Similarly, an unlike different material. The Rabeinu Yeruchem and
substance cannot become batul to the shofar the Ritz Gei’us also understand that if the
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and will therefore invalidate any sound it sound of the shofar remains unaffected a
produces. According to this opinion, a shofar stopper made of a different material will not
is only valid if all three of the following invalidate it. According to them, provided
conditions are fulfilled: (1) the hole is a most of the shofar remains intact, it is still valid

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