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# Some say not to make Brachat HaGomel for traveling on an airplane since it’s considered safe, however many hold that HaGomel is required and such is the minhag. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha pg 158 quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Moshe Feinstein as requiring a Bracha, and Minchat Yitzchak as arguing. Sh"t Igrot Moshe 1:59, Sh"t Yabea Omer 1:14, and Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah 23:5) hold that one should make Birkat Hagomel for traveling in an airplane. http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2132 specifies that for Sephardim one must travel 72 minutes in order to make a Birkat Hagomel. </ref> | # Some say not to make Brachat HaGomel for traveling on an airplane since it’s considered safe, however many hold that HaGomel is required and such is the minhag. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha pg 158 quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman and Rav Moshe Feinstein as requiring a Bracha, and Minchat Yitzchak as arguing. Sh"t Igrot Moshe 1:59, Sh"t Yabea Omer 1:14, and Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah 23:5) hold that one should make Birkat Hagomel for traveling in an airplane. http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2132 specifies that for Sephardim one must travel 72 minutes in order to make a Birkat Hagomel. </ref> | ||
==For sickness== | ==For sickness== | ||
# For sickness that’s of potential mortal danger, Birkat HaGomel is required when healed. | # For sickness that’s of potential mortal danger, Birkat HaGomel is required when healed. According to Ashkenazim, for sickness that’s non-mortal but confines a person to bed for 3 days or more requires a Brachat HaGomel when healed. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 219:28 </ref> According to Sephardim, for any sickness which confines a person to bed for any amount of time requires Birkat HaGomel when healed. <ref> Yalkut Yosef (Brachot pg 583 and 758) </ref> | ||
==For being let out of jail== | ==For being let out of jail== | ||
# The Minhag Ashkenaz is not to make Birkat HaGomel for being let out of jail nowadays because of the lack of danger involved in staying in jail. <ref>Biur Halacha 219 D"H Chavush </ref> Nonetheless the Sephardic minhag is to make it for being let out of jail even if there was no danger in staying in jail. <ref> Kaf HaChaim 219:11, Piskei Teshuvot 219:6 </ref> | # The Minhag Ashkenaz is not to make Birkat HaGomel for being let out of jail nowadays because of the lack of danger involved in staying in jail. <ref>Biur Halacha 219 D"H Chavush </ref> Nonetheless the Sephardic minhag is to make it for being let out of jail even if there was no danger in staying in jail. <ref> Kaf HaChaim 219:11, Piskei Teshuvot 219:6 </ref> | ||
