Birchat Ha'ilanot: Difference between revisions
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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> | ||