Birkat Halevana
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- One is obligated to make the bracha of Kiddish HaChodesh which begins Baruch Atta Hashem...Asher BeMaamaro Bara Shechakim. [1]
When it should be said
- Preferably, one should make the bracha on Saturday night after Shabbat so one is nicely dressed and presentable. [2]
- Kiddish Levana isn't said prior to Tisha BeAv or Yom Kippur. Rather it should be said the right after Yom Kippur, and regarding Tisha BeAv, it shouldn't be said right after the fast but in the next few days. [3]
- One may make the Kiddish Levana on the fifteenth day after the Molad with a bracha, however, on the sixteenth day after the Molad one should say it without a bracha. [4] If the Molad was on Sunday during the day, the last day to say Kiddish Levana is on the second Monday afterwards. [5]
- According to Ashkenazim one may make the bracha once three days from evening to evening after the Molad have passed, however according to Sephardim, one shouldn't make it until after 7 days after the Molad. [6]
Looking at the moon
- One should look at the moon prior to making the bracha. Some hold that one may look at the moon the entire time, however some hold that one shouldn't look at it after the bracha and others are strict not to allow looking at it even during the bracha. [7]
- If one made Birkat HaLevana without looking at the moon but said it as part of the tzibbur, one fulfills thier obligation bedieved. [8]
Saying Amen Amen
- When saying Amen Amen Amen in Birkat HaLevana one should make sure to pasue between each Amen unless one is saying it in private in which case one doesn’t need to pause. [9]
References
- ↑ S"A 426:1
- ↑ S"A 426:2
- ↑ Rama 426:2
- ↑ S"A 426:3
- ↑ Mishna Brurah 426:17 explains that one has 15 complete days from evening to evening.
- ↑ S"A 426:4
- ↑ S"A 426:2 writes that one should look at the moon prior to making the bracha. Mishna Brurah 426:13 brings three opinions 1) Shaarei Knesset HaGedolah holds that one may look at the moon the entire time 2)The Knesset HaGedolah quotes the Sefer Charedim holds that one shouldn't look at the moon after the bracha 3) Magan Avraham is the most strict and holds that even during the bracha one shouldn't at it. [It seems that the Mishna Brurah doesn't decide but adds the comment that the Magan Avraham was extra stringent.] Eliyah Rabba (Siman 426) holds like the Sefer Charedim. However, the Aruch HaShulchan 426:5 writes that the minhag is like the Magan Avraham. So holds the Ben Ish Chai (Vayikra(2) 23), Kaf HaChaim 35:4, 426:34, Mekor Chaim 426:2, Chesed Alafim 426:4, Yosef Ometz 474, Chida in Moreh Etzbah 6:186, Birkat Eitan (Birkat Levana pg 207), Yalkut Yosef (Birkat Levana pg 146), and Atret Paz (Birkat Levana pg 65).
- ↑ Birkat Eitan (Birkat Levana pg 200), Sefer Kiddish Levana (2 note 20) in name of Rav Elyashiv, Halichot Shlomo 15:13, Even Yisrael 426:1, Sh"T Shevet HaLevi Y"D 5:125(4)
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- Yerushalmi (Megillah 4:10) says that one shouldn’t say Amen Amen just like one shouldn’t say Shema Shema. This is quoted by the Ohel Moed (Kriyat Shema 1:7). Bet Yosef 61 writes that he doesn’t know what the source of the Ohel Moed is and challenges this because there are pesukim with the words Amen VeAmen.
- Pri Chadash 61:12 answers that in the pesukim it’s permitted if one pauses between the two words Amen. Korban HaEdah (Megillah 4:10) writes that in a congregation it’s forbidden but the pesukim were said in private and then it’s permitted. Kiseh Eliyahu 61:3 and Yabea Omer 10:5 agree. Yaavetz (Mor UKesiyah 61) argues that the Yershalmi is against the Bavli it is totally permissible to say Amen Amen.
- Yabea Omer 10:5 concludes that when saying Amen Amen Amen in Birkat Halevana one should pause between each Amen. This is also the ruling of Kaf HaChaim 61:43.
