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==Origin of the obligation== | ==Origin of the obligation== | ||
# Some hold that this law is a biblical obligation, while others hold it's of rabbinic origin. <ref> See Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 at length. The Chida (Machzik Bracha 290:1) writes that going out of the way to complete a hundred [[Brachot]] daily is only a virtuous practice. However, the Petach Dvir 290:3, Sdei Chemed (Chet 34), and Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 write that it’s a complete obligation. [Chazon Ovadyah ([[Shabbat]] vol 2 pg 339) writes that even the Chida may mean that it’s only virtuous to go out of the way to make the Bracha oneself but accumulating a hundred (including [[Brachot]] one listens to such as the [[Brachot]] of Torah reading) is an obligation.] Tur 46 also says this obligation is also rabbinic and the pasuk brought in menachot 43b is an asmachta. The Arizal in Shaar Ruach Hakodesh 4a says that there is a level in blessing in heaven that the only way to get to it is saying 100 [[berachot]] each day. Kitzur | # Some hold that this law is a biblical obligation, while others hold it's of rabbinic origin. <ref> See Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 at length. The Chida (Machzik Bracha 290:1) writes that going out of the way to complete a hundred [[Brachot]] daily is only a virtuous practice. However, the Petach Dvir 290:3, Sdei Chemed (Chet 34), and Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 write that it’s a complete obligation. [Chazon Ovadyah ([[Shabbat]] vol 2 pg 339) writes that even the Chida may mean that it’s only virtuous to go out of the way to make the Bracha oneself but accumulating a hundred (including [[Brachot]] one listens to such as the [[Brachot]] of Torah reading) is an obligation.] Tur 46 also says this obligation is also rabbinic and the pasuk brought in menachot 43b is an asmachta. The Arizal in Shaar Ruach Hakodesh 4a says that there is a level in blessing in heaven that the only way to get to it is saying 100 [[berachot]] each day. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 6:7 writes that a person is obligated to make a hundred [[brachot]] daily.</ref> | ||
# There are several sources and reasons given for this law including: | # There are several sources and reasons given for this law including: | ||
## David Hamelech made an institution to say 100 [[berachot]] a day to stop the plague that was killing a 100 people every day. <ref> Bamidbar Rabba Parasha 18, Tur 46 quoting Rabbi Natronai Gaon, Daat Zekenim MeBaalei Tosfot (Devarim 10:12) </ref> | ## David Hamelech made an institution to say 100 [[berachot]] a day to stop the plague that was killing a 100 people every day. <ref> Bamidbar Rabba Parasha 18, Tur 46 quoting Rabbi Natronai Gaon, Daat Zekenim MeBaalei Tosfot (Devarim 10:12) </ref> | ||
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==Getting to a hundred on [[Shabbat]] and [[Yom Tov]]== | ==Getting to a hundred on [[Shabbat]] and [[Yom Tov]]== | ||
# Because we don't say a [[Shemoneh Esrei]] of 19 [[brachot]] but rather of 7, one should try to accumulate a hundred through having snacks. <ref> | # Because we don't say a [[Shemoneh Esrei]] of 19 [[brachot]] but rather of 7, one should try to accumulate a hundred through having snacks. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 290:1</ref> | ||
# According to the Mishna Brurah one is only lacking 13 [[Brachot]] on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 46:14 </ref> The following is the Mishna Brurah's count of 87 [[Brachot]]: | # According to the Mishna Brurah one is only lacking 13 [[Brachot]] on [[Shabbat]]. <ref> Mishna Brurah 46:14 </ref> The following is the Mishna Brurah's count of 87 [[Brachot]]: | ||
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