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# One who stops from his learning with working, bathing, or sleeping, isn’t an interruption for his learning and he doesn’t make new [[Brachot]]. <ref> S”A 47:10. See Tosfot [[Brachot]] 11b.  

* Tosfot Brachot 11a asks why a person does not need to make another birchat hatorah when he stops his learning and goes back to learning. He answers that a person never gives up thinking about going back to learning because a person should learn whenever he has free time. The Rosh Brachot 1:13 and Hagahot Maimoniyot (Tefillah 7:9) agree.  

* The Agur (cited by Divrei Chamudot Brachot 1:76) explains that the reason there’s no interruption when it comes to birchat hatorah is because a person is always involved in activities that require following halacha. The observance of halacha keeps a person’s mind connected to learning. S”A 47:10 holds that going to work or going to the bathroom isn’t considered an interruption and you don’t need to make another birchat hatorah. </ref>

# If one slept during the day for a long period of time one does not make Birchot HaTorah again upon [[waking up]]. Even though there is what to rely on to one to make the [[Brachot]], the Minhag HaOlam is not to make the [[Brachot]], and one should instead hear them from someone who is obligated to make them (both must have kavana, and after the Bracha, both learn some pesukim such as Parshat [[Birkat Cohanim]]). <Ref> S”A 47:11 quotes those who say that a fixed sleep during the day is a [[hefsek]], and then quotes those who say that it isn't a [[hefsek]]; the minhag follows the latter view. However, Eliyah Rabba 47:9 quotes many poskim who say that one should make a Beracha and agrees with them; Mishna Brurah 47:25 quotes many main acharonim who say to make a Birchas HaTorah, and concludes that one who does doesn't lose out. However, many contemporary poskim including Piskei Teshuvot 47:14, Halichos Shlomo [[Tefilla]] 6:6, Rivevos Ephraim 8:609:1, Ishei Yisrael 6:25, Karna Deigrata 1:133, Halachically Speaking (vol 3, article 1, pg 5), and Piskei Teshuvot 47:14 write that the minhag is not to make any Birchot HaTorah for sleeping in the day. </ref>