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# The Bracha is recited when the tree starts to bloom, meaning carry flowers, leaves are not enough. <ref> Mishna Brurah 226:2 </ref> | # The Bracha is recited when the tree starts to bloom, meaning carry flowers, leaves are not enough. <ref> Mishna Brurah 226:2 </ref> | ||
# If the tree's buds matured into fruits one may no longer make the Bracha. However if some of the fruit begin to grow and some flowers and buds remain one may still say the Bracha. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 26-7). This is also implied by Mishna Brurah 226:4. </ref> | # If the tree's buds matured into fruits one may no longer make the Bracha. However if some of the fruit begin to grow and some flowers and buds remain one may still say the Bracha. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 26-7). This is also implied by Mishna Brurah 226:4. </ref> | ||
# One may say Birchat Ilanot even on [[Shabbat]], yet it is preferable to make it during the week if it does not result in one missing out on making the Bracha altogether. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 20), Nitei Gavriel ([[Pesach]] 6:9). Kaf Hachayim 226:4 quotes the Moed likol chai that the Bracha should not be said on [[Shabbat]] or [[ | # One may say Birchat Ilanot even on [[Shabbat]], yet it is preferable to make it during the week if it does not result in one missing out on making the Bracha altogether. <ref> Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 20), Nitei Gavriel ([[Pesach]] 6:9). Kaf Hachayim 226:4 quotes the Moed likol chai that the Bracha should not be said on [[Shabbat]] or [[Yom Tov]] because we are worried that one may come to shake or break a branch. He adds that according to Kabbalah the Bracha should not be said on [[Shabbat]] or [[Yom Tov]]. Rav Ovadia Yosef in Yechave Daat 1:2 writes that preferably one should not say it on [[Shabbat]] unless it is the last day of nissan and one still has not yet recited the Bracha. </ref> | ||
# One may say Birchat Ilanot even at night if there is enough light for one to distinguish between trees that are blooming and ones that are not. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 11), Tzitz Eliezer 12:20(6) </ref> | # One may say Birchat Ilanot even at night if there is enough light for one to distinguish between trees that are blooming and ones that are not. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 11), Tzitz Eliezer 12:20(6) </ref> | ||
# In Australia trees bud in [[Elul]] and Tishrei one should therefore say [[Birchat Ilanot]] in those months rather than in Nissan.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Pesach]] 6:17) </ref> | # In Australia trees bud in [[Elul]] and Tishrei one should therefore say [[Birchat Ilanot]] in those months rather than in Nissan.<ref>Nitei Gavriel ([[Pesach]] 6:17) </ref> | ||
