Birchot HaTorah: Difference between revisions
From Halachipedia
→Women: more onsafek
(→Women: safek sefardim) |
(→Women: more onsafek) |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
===Women=== | ===Women=== | ||
# Women are obligated in making the Birchot HaTorah.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 47:14, Magen Avraham 47:17 explains that it is because women have to learn the Halachot relevant to them. Minchat Chinuch 430:5 says that women can make these brachot because it is a praise of Hashem for giving us the Torah. The Gra 47:18 argues that women should not have to make the brachot since they are 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 obligated in making the Birchot HaTorah.<ref> Shulchan Aruch 47:14, Magen Avraham 47:17 explains that it is because women have to learn the Halachot relevant to them. Minchat Chinuch 430:5 says that women can make these brachot because it is a praise of Hashem for giving us the Torah. The Gra 47:18 argues that women should not have to make the brachot since they are 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> | ||
# If a woman is unsure if she recited Birchot HaTorah, she may not recite them out of doubt.<Ref>Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim 47:19, Halacha Berurah 47:27, Otzrot Yosef 21.</ref> | # If a woman is unsure if she recited Birchot HaTorah, she may not recite them out of doubt, even according to those who argue reciting Birchot HaTorah is a Torah level obligation.<Ref>Kaf HaChaim Orach Chaim 47:34, Yalkut Yosef Orach Chaim 47:19, Halacha Berurah 47:27, Otzrot Yosef 21.</ref> | ||
===The Proper Mindset for Birkot HaTorah=== | ===The Proper Mindset for Birkot HaTorah=== | ||
