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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 (Halichot Shlomo [[Tefilla]] 23:5) and Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe 2:59) as requiring a Bracha, and Minchat Yitzchak (2:47) as arguing. The Minchat Yitzchak's logic is that hagomel is only recited on dangers that are not taken on willingly. Sh"t Igrot Moshe 2:59, Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:26, and Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 23:5) hold that one should make Birkat Hagomel for traveling in an airplane. Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Ha'ish 40:15) holds that hagomel is only recited for flying over an ocean, but not flying over land. [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2132 Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com] concludes that for Sephardim one must travel 72 minutes in order to make a Birkat Hagomel and this is the ruling of Rav Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer 1:14 and Yechave Daat 2:26 and Rav Shmuel Pinchasi in Kuntres Vichol Hachaim page 34. Chacham Bentzion Abba Shaul in Or Litzion 2:14:43 says that this is only true with commercial flights where the passengers do not know each other, but in an army plane, helicopter or private plane where the passengers do know each other hagomel would not be recited. | #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 (Halichot Shlomo [[Tefilla]] 23:5) and Rav Moshe Feinstein (Iggerot Moshe 2:59) as requiring a Bracha, and Minchat Yitzchak (2:47) as arguing. The Minchat Yitzchak's logic is that hagomel is only recited on dangers that are not taken on willingly. Sh"t Igrot Moshe 2:59, Sh"t Yechave Daat 2:26, and Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 23:5) hold that one should make Birkat Hagomel for traveling in an airplane. Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Ha'ish 40:15) holds that hagomel is only recited for flying over an ocean, but not flying over land. [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=2132 Rabbi Mansour on Dailyhalacha.com] concludes that for Sephardim one must travel 72 minutes in order to make a Birkat Hagomel and this is the ruling of Rav Ovadia Yosef in Yabia Omer 1:14 and Yechave Daat 2:26 and Rav Shmuel Pinchasi in Kuntres Vichol Hachaim page 34. Chacham Bentzion Abba Shaul in Or Litzion 2:14:43 says that this is only true with commercial flights where the passengers do not know each other, but in an army plane, helicopter or private plane where the passengers do know each other hagomel would not be recited. | ||
*[http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/Reciting%20Birkat%20Hagomel%20on%20Airplane%20Travel.htm Rabbi Jachter] quotes that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's practice was only to recite it after airplane travel, if a serious incident occurred but that he said that whoever perceives airplane travel as dangerous should recite hagomel even if nothing happened. Tzitz Eliezer 11:14 rules that for a flight that travels over bodies of water it should be recited but not over a flight between cities within one country.</ref> | *[http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/Reciting%20Birkat%20Hagomel%20on%20Airplane%20Travel.htm Rabbi Jachter] quotes that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's practice was only to recite it after airplane travel, if a serious incident occurred but that he said that whoever perceives airplane travel as dangerous should recite hagomel even if nothing happened. Tzitz Eliezer 11:14 rules that for a flight that travels over bodies of water it should be recited but not over a flight between cities within one country.</ref> | ||
#If a person was in a near car accident and was saved doesn't need to make a hagomel.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 2:136 says that if you avoided a car accident you don't make a hagomel. See also 2:148.</ref> | #If a person was in a near car accident and was saved doesn't need to make a hagomel.<ref>Teshuvot Vehanhagot 2:136 says that if you avoided a car accident you don't make a hagomel. See also 2:148. Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Ha'ish 40:20) agrees.</ref> | ||
==When hagomel is Recited== | ==When hagomel is Recited== | ||
