The Rambam and Minhagei Tefilla| Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | June 30 2026

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Uh today's share has been dedicated anonymously Shimon may indeed the nish have an aliyah. Uh so the particular unit that we're looking at we started looking at it last week are some very interesting chubos of the Rambam regarding the procedure in Besset the procedure of prayer different minimum about prayer last week you'll recall without repeating it at length the Rambam's very repeating it at length the Rambam's very interesting innovation regarding Khazar Sashhatz that the Rambam was concerned that too many people were talking during Musaf of Chavez So the Ramba made an enactment that instead of having a silent amid followed by the will start the repetition right away and those who are able to dav in will dive in silently along with the kazan and they will stop for kadusha and those who don't know how to read there will be y which was the to read there will be y which was the original justification of so according to that minog the kazan actually did not d a silent amid Again, let me point out that the Rambam does concede this is not the optimal way to do things. This is not the takana of Kazal. Kazal made a takana of a silent followed by a repetition. But the Rambam felt it was justifiable to cancel the initial silence in order that there shouldn't be talking. It just and the Ramba mentioned a few considerations. Number one, uh it is a

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2. 5:09a half an hour that's a fast shak and then shabas of course it's going to…
3. 10:23vilon never really I believe he never even instituted it once. It never even happened once…
4. 15:33to benefit so in Veneak was very very naf that you have to have generators and…
5. 20:57the Rambam's time but Rafson was a big person a person of immense immense reputation and…
6. 26:38up because uh that is when you know God spoke to all of Ami Israel 600,000…
7. 31:44what is he do >> in other words if they're if they stand up you mean…
8. 36:47different reading in the morning but even on tishabove we read it at min. And uh…
9. 42:03Answer number one is given by the rush. And the rush says that even though this…
10. 47:29Yeah. Yeah. I have Okay. So, uh so the truth of the matter is in the…

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