Talmud for Rosh Hashanah 54:1

ניקב וסתמו אם מעכב את התקיעה פסול ואם לאו כשר התוקע לתוך הבור או לתוך הדות או לתוך הפיטס אם קול שופר שמע יצא ואם קול הברה שמע לא יצא

IF A HOLE IN A SHOFAR HAS BEEN STOPPED UP, IF IT INTERFERES WITH THE BLOWING IT IS NOT VALID, BUT OTHERWISE IT IS VALID.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Talmud Yerushalmi reads here, 'If it (the hole) interfered with the blowing before it was closed, the shofar is not valid after it was closed'. cehb Our version, however, rather implies that if the stoppage restores the shofar to its original condition, it may be used. V. Tosaf. s.v. ,us');">1 IF ONE BLOWS INTO A PIT OR A CISTERN2

Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah

HALAKHAH: “A shofar which was split and glued together is disqualified.” For whom is this needed? For Rebbi Nathan⁸⁹The entire Mishnah must follow R. Nathan since in the baraita quoted in the Halakhah the opponents of R. Nathan disqualify even a repaired hole.. “If one glued together pieces of shofarot it is disqualified.” This also is Rebbi Nathan’s. “If it was pierced and he plugged it,” Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan, it is Rebbi Nathan’s, as it was stated⁹⁰Babli 27b., if it was pierced and then repaired, whether with its own kind or another kind, if it obstructs blowing it is disqualified, otherwise it is qualified; Rebbi Nathan says, with its own kind⁹¹He considers a horn repaired using only material from similar horns as the natural product and qualified. it is qualified, not with its own kind it is disqualified. Rebbi Ḥiyya in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: so is the Mishnah: “if it was obstructing blowing it is disqualified⁹²If the shofar was unusable when not repaired, it remains unusable when repaired., otherwise it is qualified.” Rebbi Abba bar Zemina in the name of Rebbi Ze`ira: Only if he plugged it. But if he did not plug it it is qualified since all sounds of a shofar are qualified.

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