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Text: Mishnah Brachot 4:3

Rabban Gamliel says: Every day a person must pray eighteen [blessings of Shemoneh Esrei]. Rabbi Yehoshua says: [One may say] an abbreviated [form of the] eighteen [blessings]. Rabbi Akiva says: If his prayer is fluent in his mouth, he must say eighteen; and if it is not -- an abbreviated eighteen.

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In this Facebook Live class, we study the first chapter of Rambam's Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Teshuvah (repentance). Beginning to explore this complex idea before the High Holy Days.

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Text: Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Teshuvah
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishneh_Torah,_Repentance.1?lang=bi

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 4:2

Rabbi Nechunya ben HaKanah would offer a brief prayer when he entered the study hall and when he left. They said to him: What is the nature of this prayer? He told them: Upon my entrance, I pray that no mishaps should occur because of me; and upon my departure, I offer thanksgiving for my portion.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 4:1

Shacharit [can be said] until midday. Rabbi Yehudah says until four hours into the day. Minchah [can be said] until the evening. Rabbi Yehudah says until the middle of the afternoon. Ma'ariv has no set time and Musaf can be said all day. Rabbi Yehudah says until seven hours into the day.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 3:6

A Zav [someone subject to a certain form of ritual impurity] who saw a seminal emission, and a Niddah [someone subject to a different form of ritual impurity] who discharged semen from sexual relations, and a woman having sexual relations who saw menstrual blood, require [ritual] immersion. And Rabbi Yehudah exempts them.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 3:4

A Ba'al Keri [someone subject to a certain form of ritual impurity] should recite Shema in his mind and should not bless [its blessings whatsoever], not before and not after it. And on food he should bless after it and not bless before it. Rabbi Yehudah says: He should bless before and after them [Shema and food].

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 3:3

Women, slaves, and minors are exempt from reciting Shema and from tefillin and are obligated in [reciting] Shemoneh Esrei and in [affixing a] Mezuzah and in [reciting] Birkat HaMazon.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 3:2

When they have buried the dead and returned: If they are able to start and to finish before they reach the [place where they stand in a] line, they should start. If not, they should not start. As for those standing in a line, the ones standing on the inside are exempt and the ones standing on the outside are obligated.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 3:1

One whose dead lies before him, he is exempt from reciting the Shema, from saying Shemoneh Esrei and from wearing tefillin. The pall bearers and their replacements and the replacements of the replacements, regardless of whether they are in the front or in the back of the casket: those that are needed to carry the casket are exempt, and those that are not needed to carry the casket are obligated [to recite Shema]. These and those are exempt from reciting Shemoneh Esrei.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 2:8

If a groom wants to recite Shema on the first night, he may recite [it]. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Not everyone who wants to take on the [Divine] name may take it on.

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Text: Mishnah Brachot 2:7

And when [Rabban Gamliel's] slave Tavi died, he received words of comfort for him. His students said to him: Didn't you teach us, our teacher, that one does not receive words of comfort for slaves? He said to them: My servant Tavi was not like other servants. He was Kasher [acceptable].