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# One should be particularly careful about saying the Birchot HaTorah because they show one's appreciation of Hashem’s gift of Torah to the Jewish people. <ref> S”A 47:1. Gemara Nedarim 81a says because the Jews didn’t say Birchot HaTorah the fist Bet HaMikdash and [[Israel]] was destroyed. The Bach 57:1 explains that their intention was to learn Torah just to learn the knowledge and be arrogant in their wisdom. They didn’t internalize the holiness of Torah into their body and soul and this caused Hashem’s Shechina to be removed. </ref> | # One should be particularly careful about saying the Birchot HaTorah because they show one's appreciation of Hashem’s gift of Torah to the Jewish people. <ref> S”A 47:1. Gemara Nedarim 81a says because the Jews didn’t say Birchot HaTorah the fist Bet HaMikdash and [[Israel]] was destroyed. The Bach 57:1 explains that their intention was to learn Torah just to learn the knowledge and be arrogant in their wisdom. They didn’t internalize the holiness of Torah into their body and soul and this caused Hashem’s Shechina to be removed. </ref> | ||
# Some hold Birchot HaTorah are a Biblical Mitzvah and some consider it a Rabbinic institution. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 47:1 </ref> | # Some hold Birchot HaTorah are a Biblical Mitzvah and some consider it a Rabbinic institution. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 47:1 </ref> | ||
# Someone who was in doubt, preferably | # Someone who was in doubt, preferably should hear someone else make the [[Brachot]] (and both the listener and the speaker should have intent to fulfill the obligation), otherwise one should have intent to fulfill the obligation with the Bracha of Ahavah Rabba or Ahavat Olam and learn right after [[Davening]]. If that’s not possible, according to Ashkenazim, one may make the Bracha of the Asher Bacher Banu. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 47:1 </ref> However, according to Sephardim, if one can't hear the bracha from someone else or have intent that one's bracha of Ahavat Olam fulfill one's obligation, one should not say the [[brachot]].<reF>Yalkut Yosef 47:2 writes that since there are some who hold [[brachot hatorah]] are derabbanan if one is in doubt one should not say the bracha based on the klal of [[safek brachot lehakel]].</ref> | ||
# One has to make Birchot HaTorah for any learning including Torah, midrash, Mishna, and Gemara. <ref> [[Brachot]] 11b, S”A 47:2, Yalkut Yosef 47:2 </ref> | # One has to make Birchot HaTorah for any learning including Torah, midrash, Mishna, and Gemara. <ref> [[Brachot]] 11b, S”A 47:2, Yalkut Yosef 47:2 </ref> | ||
# Women are also obligated in making the Birchot HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:14, Magan Avraham 47:17 explains that it’s because women have to learn the Halachot relevant to them. Minchat [[Chinuch]] 430:5 says that women can make these [[Brachot]] because it’s a praise of Hashem for giving us the Torah. The Gra 47:18 argues that women shouldn’t have to make the [[Brachot]] because they’re exempt from Torah learning. However he allows women to make the [[Brachot]] like any other mitzvah from which women are exempt, Ashkenazic custom is to allow them to make a bracha. </ref> | # Women are also obligated in making the Birchot HaTorah. <ref> S”A 47:14, Magan Avraham 47:17 explains that it’s because women have to learn the Halachot relevant to them. Minchat [[Chinuch]] 430:5 says that women can make these [[Brachot]] because it’s a praise of Hashem for giving us the Torah. The Gra 47:18 argues that women shouldn’t have to make the [[Brachot]] because they’re exempt from Torah learning. However he allows women to make the [[Brachot]] like any other mitzvah from which women are exempt, Ashkenazic custom is to allow them to make a bracha. </ref> | ||
