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# It is better for one person to say the Bracha out loud and everyone else to say it quietly to themselves. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 12) </ref> | # It is better for one person to say the Bracha out loud and everyone else to say it quietly to themselves. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 12) </ref> | ||
# A blind person cannot make Birchat Ilanot, however, it is proper to listen to the Shaliach Tzibbur make the Bracha. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 28) </ref> | # A blind person cannot make Birchat Ilanot, however, it is proper to listen to the Shaliach Tzibbur make the Bracha. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 28) </ref> | ||
# One may make the Bracha even if one sees the tree through glasses | # One may make the Bracha even if one sees the tree through a window, glasses including sunglasses.<ref>Chazon Ovadyah ([[Pesach]] pg 29), Atret Paz Birchat Ilanot p. 156 based on Shaarei Teshuva 426 </ref> | ||
#Preferably the Bracha should be recited on trees located outside of the city. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 8, Kaf Hachayim 226:3 quoting Lev Chayim 45. </ref> | #Preferably the Bracha should be recited on trees located outside of the city. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 8, Kaf Hachayim 226:3 quoting Lev Chayim 45. </ref> | ||
==Seeing the Trees through Glass or a Video== | |||
# A person can recite Birkat Hailanot by seeing the trees through glass such as if he sees them through a window with glass.<ref>Ateret Paz (Birkat Hailanot p. 155). As a proof he cites Yechava Daat 4:18:11 that a person can recite birkat hachama through a window.</ref> | |||
# A person can recite the bracha upon seeing the trees through glasses or binoculars.<ref>Ateret Paz (Birkat Hailanot p. 153)</ref> | |||
# One should not recite the bracha upon seeing the trees through a video, mirror, or a reflection of water.<ref>Ateret Paz (Birkat Hailanot p. 156). One of his proofs is Rav Ovadia Yosef in Yechava Daat 2:28, Betzel Hachachma 2:11, and Beer Moshe 2:9:3 who write that seeing a king through a video doesn't allow one to recite the bracha upon seeing a king. </ref> | |||
==How many trees are needed to be able to make Birchat Ilanot?== | ==How many trees are needed to be able to make Birchat Ilanot?== | ||
