Halakha 111b – Rosh Hashanah – Seder Tekias Shofar – Tefilah

Halakha – Rosh Hashanah – Seder Tekias Shofar – Tefilah – Speaker: Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld zal. (Recorded ca. 1978.)

• 00:01 A person must hear every one of the 100 soundings of the shofar. To prevent disturbance of the kehilla, young children should not be brought to shul.
• 00:47 Women are exempt from the obligation to hear shofar but traditionally go to shul to hear it if they can.
• 01:45 How to hold the shofar.
• 02:00 The shofar is covered during the blessings on sounding the shofar.
• 02:19 Tehillim 47 – “Lamenatze’ach” – is said 7 times before the shofar is sounded.
• 02:57 Seder Tekias Shofar.
• 05:04 Length of each one of the shofar’s kolos.
• 12:57 During the tefilos belachash a person should stop and listen to the tekios.
• 14:23 According to the Arizal, the Shemoneh Esrei must be said silently.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.