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tents juxtaposed to streams, as it is written: “As streams stretched forth, as gardens by the riverside; as aloes [ahalim] planted by YHWH, as cedars by the water” (Numbers 24:6)? The Talmud vocalizes the word ohalim, tents, rather than ahalim. They are juxtaposed in order to tell you: Just as strea
We learned in our Mishnah: One who recited Shema out of order did not fulfill his obligation. One who recited and erred, should return to the place in Shema that he erred.
With regard to an error in the recitation of Shema, the Talmud recounts: R' Ami and R' Asi were once tying a wedding canopy in preparation for the wedding of R' Elazar. He said to them: In the meantime, until you finish, I will go and hear something in the study hall, and I will come and say it to
One who recited Shema and erred, and does not know where exactly he erred; if he was in the middle of a paragraph when he realized his error, he must return to the beginning of the paragraph; if he was between one paragraph and another when he realized his error but does not remember between which
R' Yoḥanan said to him: They only taught this halakha in a case where one did not yet begin: “In order to lengthen your days” (Deuteronomy 11:21) which follows that verse at the end of the second paragraph. However, if he already began to recite: In order to lengthen your days, he can assume that h