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==Interruptions in middle of Birkat Cohanim== | ==Interruptions in middle of Birkat Cohanim== | ||
# During Birkat Cohanim one shouldn’t make any interruptions even to answer Kaddish or Kedusha. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 10:4 </ref> | # During Birkat Cohanim one shouldn’t make any interruptions even to answer Kaddish or Kedusha. <Ref>Halichot Shlomo 10:4 </ref> | ||
# The Tzibbur shouldn’t say anything during the Birkat Cohanim except for Amen. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 127:11. Tefillah KeHilchata (pg 297 note 110*) writes that some have the minhag to answer Ken Yehe Ratzon after the first two pesukim and Amen Ken Yehe Ratzon after the third pasuk. </ref>Sephardim also have the minhag to answer Baruch Hu UBaruch Shemo after hearing Hashem's name in Birkat Cohanim.<ref>Kaf HaChaim 124:27 and Sh”t | # The Tzibbur shouldn’t say anything during the Birkat Cohanim except for Amen. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 127:11. Tefillah KeHilchata (pg 297 note 110*) writes that some have the minhag to answer Ken Yehe Ratzon after the first two pesukim and Amen Ken Yehe Ratzon after the third pasuk. </ref>Sephardim also have the minhag to answer Baruch Hu UBaruch Shemo after hearing Hashem's name in Birkat Cohanim.<ref>Kaf HaChaim 124:27 and Sh”t Yechave Daat 4:9 write that one should say Baruch Hu UBaruch Shemo after the name of Hashem.</ref> | ||
# The Shaliach Tzibbur shouldn’t answer Amen unless he’s Davening from a Siddur and feels that he won’t loose his place, <Ref>S”A 128:19, Mishna Brurah 128:71, Tefillah KeHilchata 14:52 </ref> but to the Bracha of the cohanim before Birkat Cohanim one certainly shouldn’t answer Amen. <ref>Mishna Brurah 128:71, Kaf HaChaim 128:112, Tefillah KeHilchata 14:52 </ref> | # The Shaliach Tzibbur shouldn’t answer Amen unless he’s Davening from a Siddur and feels that he won’t loose his place, <Ref>S”A 128:19, Mishna Brurah 128:71, Tefillah KeHilchata 14:52 </ref> but to the Bracha of the cohanim before Birkat Cohanim one certainly shouldn’t answer Amen. <ref>Mishna Brurah 128:71, Kaf HaChaim 128:112, Tefillah KeHilchata 14:52 </ref> | ||
==Imitating Birkat Cohanim== | ==Imitating Birkat Cohanim== | ||
# Some say that a Yisrael may not raise his fingers in the same fashion as the cohanim do for Birkat Cohanim. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 128:3 based on Kaf HaChaim 128:79 who quotes the Zohar. However, see Sh"t Rivevot Efraim 1:93(2) who questions whether this prohibition applies to Yisraelim or not. See also Sh"t | # Some say that a Yisrael may not raise his fingers in the same fashion as the cohanim do for Birkat Cohanim. <ref>Piskei Teshuvot 128:3 based on Kaf HaChaim 128:79 who quotes the Zohar. However, see Sh"t Rivevot Efraim 1:93(2) who questions whether this prohibition applies to Yisraelim or not. See also Sh"t Yechave Daat 5:14 who defends the minhag to bless one's children with one or two hands. </ref> | ||
# If a Yisrael makes the blessing of the cohanim, with the intention of doing the mitzvah, he is transgressing a positive commandment, because only the cohanim were commanded.<Ref> Rama 128:1, Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 296 </ref> | # If a Yisrael makes the blessing of the cohanim, with the intention of doing the mitzvah, he is transgressing a positive commandment, because only the cohanim were commanded.<Ref> Rama 128:1, Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 296 </ref> | ||
# However, parents blessing their children and Rabbis blessing their students, may put both of their hands on their heads while reciting the blessing, since the only prohibition is to make the blessing with the intention of fulfilling the mitzvah of the commandment, and to do it like the cohen.<Ref> Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 296. See Biur Halacha 128:1 s.v. DeZar who writes that the minhag of Yisraelim to bless other Jews with the words of birkat cohanim is either based on the fact that perhaps there's only a prohibition if they raise thier hands like cohanim or that they have kavana not to fulfill the mitzvah of birkat cohanim. </ref> | # However, parents blessing their children and Rabbis blessing their students, may put both of their hands on their heads while reciting the blessing, since the only prohibition is to make the blessing with the intention of fulfilling the mitzvah of the commandment, and to do it like the cohen.<Ref> Yalkut Yosef, Tefillah Volume 1, page 296. See Biur Halacha 128:1 s.v. DeZar who writes that the minhag of Yisraelim to bless other Jews with the words of birkat cohanim is either based on the fact that perhaps there's only a prohibition if they raise thier hands like cohanim or that they have kavana not to fulfill the mitzvah of birkat cohanim. </ref> | ||
