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==What type of learning requires Birchot HaTorah?== | ==What type of learning requires Birchot HaTorah?== | ||
# Writing Torah even without reading, if one understands what he’s reading, it is considered learning for which you have to make Birchot HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:3 based on Avudraham pg 32. Magan Avraham 47:1 adds that one has to understand what he’s writing to be considered learning, but just copying over text isn’t learning. | # Writing Torah even without reading, if one understands what he’s reading, it is considered learning for which you have to make Birchot HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:3 based on Avudraham pg 32. Magan Avraham 47:1 adds that one has to understand what he’s writing to be considered learning, but just copying over text isn’t learning. This is also the opinion of Buir Heitev 47:2 </ref> | ||
# According to Ashkenazim, because of a dispute one should not think Torah before amking Birchot HaTorah, however it’s permissible to do a Mitzvah even though it’ll cause one to thing about the laws of the Mitzvah. <ref>Mishna Brurah 47:7 because of the Gra who argues on S"A. </ref> However, according to Sephardim thinking words of Torah don't require Birchot HaTorah and so it's permissible to think Torah before Birchat HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:4 based on [[Shabbat]] 151a, Agur 2, and Tosfot 20b D”H VeRav Chisda. | # According to Ashkenazim, because of a dispute one should not think Torah before amking Birchot HaTorah, however it’s permissible to do a Mitzvah even though it’ll cause one to thing about the laws of the Mitzvah. <ref>Mishna Brurah 47:7 because of the Gra who argues on S"A. </ref> However, according to Sephardim thinking words of Torah don't require Birchot HaTorah and so it's permissible to think Torah before Birchat HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:4 based on [[Shabbat]] 151a, Agur 2, and Tosfot 20b D”H VeRav Chisda. This is also the opinion of Yalkut Yosef (vol 3 pg 81) that it's permissible to think Torah before Birchat HaTorah. </ref> | ||
# Hearing a speech of Divrei Torah from a person or a electronic device requires a Brachot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 47:5 </ref> | # Hearing a speech of Divrei Torah from a person or a electronic device requires a Brachot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 47:5 </ref> | ||
# Looking into a Sefer Kodesh and only reading with one’s eyes, even without saying the words, requires Brachot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 47:6 </ref> | # Looking into a Sefer Kodesh and only reading with one’s eyes, even without saying the words, requires Brachot. <ref> Yalkut Yosef 47:6 </ref> | ||
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==Someone who forgot to make the Brachot== | ==Someone who forgot to make the Brachot== | ||
# The Bracha of Ahavat Olam (the second bracha of Birchot [[Kriyat Shema]]) exempts one’s obligation of Birchot HaTorah only if one learns immediately after Tefilah. <ref> S”A 47:7 based on Brachot 11b says that one can fulfill the Brachot with the Bracha before Shema. Mishna Brurah 47:15 in name of Levush says that one can finish tefilah and it’s not called an interruption. Biur Halacha D”H Im Lamad implies from the Or Zaruh that finishing tefilah is ok but talking would be an interruption. </ref> | # The Bracha of Ahavat Olam (the second bracha of Birchot [[Kriyat Shema]]) exempts one’s obligation of Birchot HaTorah only if one learns immediately after Tefilah. <ref> S”A 47:7 based on Brachot 11b says that one can fulfill the Brachot with the Bracha before Shema. Mishna Brurah 47:15 in name of Levush says that one can finish tefilah and it’s not called an interruption. Biur Halacha D”H Im Lamad implies from the Or Zaruh that finishing tefilah is ok but talking would be an interruption. </ref> | ||
# If one forgot if he said the Birchot HaTorah (and didn’t yet say Ahavat Olam), Sephardim shouldn’t make a bracha, but Ashkenazim can make the Asher Bachar Banu Bracha. <ref>Sephardim don’t make a bracha because it’s a safek Brachot lehakel since it’s a dispute in the rishonim if Birchot HaTorah is Deoritta (Ramban) or Derabanan (Rambam). | # If one forgot if he said the Birchot HaTorah (and didn’t yet say Ahavat Olam), Sephardim shouldn’t make a bracha, but Ashkenazim can make the Asher Bachar Banu Bracha. <ref>Sephardim don’t make a bracha because it’s a safek Brachot lehakel since it’s a dispute in the rishonim if Birchot HaTorah is Deoritta (Ramban) or Derabanan (Rambam). This is also the opinion of (Yalkut Yosef Hilchot Pesukei Dezimrah 47:2 pg 60). Ashkenazim can make the Asher Bachar Banu bracha as the Mishna Brurah 47:1 says in the name of the Shagat Aryeh. </ref> | ||
==How they are to be said== | ==How they are to be said== | ||
