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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 64
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Orach Chayim Siman 64 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 4 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>דין הטועה בק"ש. ובו ד סעיפים:</b><br>קראה למפרע לא יצא בד"א בסדר הפסוקי' אבל אם הקדים פרשה לחברתה אע"פ שאינו רשאי יצא לפי שאינה סמוכה לה בתורה:
Laws of One who Errs During the Recitation of the Sh'ma, containing 4 s'ifim One who read it out of order has not fulfilled [their obligation]. This applies with regard to the order of the verses, but if one advanced a section ahead of its peer, even though they are not allowed to do so [intentionally], they have fulfilled [their obligation] since it is not adjacent in the Torah [itself].
קרא פרשה וטעה בה אם יודע היכן טעה כגון שקרא כולה אלא שדלג פסוק א' באמצע חוזר לראש אותו הפסוק וגומ' הפרשה ואם אינו יודע היכן טעה חוזר לראש הפרשה:
One who read a section and erred in it: if he knows where he erred, for example, he read the whole section but skipped one verse in the middle, he returns to the beginning of that verse and finishes the section. But if one does not know where one erred, he returns to the beginning of the section.
טעה בין פרשה לפרשה שהוא יודע שסיים פרשה ואינו יודע אם ראשונה אם שנייה חוזר לפרשה ראשונ' ויתחיל והיה אם שמוע:
One who erred in-between sections, in that he knows that he completed a section, but does not know if it was the first ("v'ahavta") or the second [section] ("v'haya im shamoah"), he returns to [the end of] the first section and then begins "If you will listen...".
היה עומד בוכתבתם ואינו יודע אם בוכתבתם שבפרשה ראשונה אם בוכתבתם שבפרשה שניה חוז' לוכתבתם שבראשונה וה"מ שלא התחיל למען ירבו ימיכם אבל אם התחיל למען ירבו ימיכם א"צ לחזור דסירכיה נקט ואתא:
If one is at the point of "and you shall write them" [which appears in both of the first two sections] and he does not know if it's the "and you shall write them" that is in the first section or the "and you shall write them" that is in the second section, he returns to the "and you shall write them" that is in the first [section]. And this is where one did not begin "so that your days shall be multiplied" [which immediately follows only in the second section], but if one did begin "so that your days shall be multiplied", there is no need to go back in that one can assume one followed one's routine and continued.
English translation: Sefaria Community Translation · CC0