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* Someone who traveled in the desert. <Ref>S”A 219:1 </ref> | * Someone who traveled in the desert. <Ref>S”A 219:1 </ref> | ||
# Some say that anyone who in near mortal danger such as someone saved from a wall collapsing, a loin attack, a goring ox, or a band of thieves at night, must make a Bracha. The ashkenazic minhag is like this opinion. <Ref>S”A 219:9, Mishna Brurah 219:32 </ref> For specific situations see a posek. <Ref>See also Piskei Teshuvot 218, Halichot Shlomo 23:1 </ref> | # Some say that anyone who in near mortal danger such as someone saved from a wall collapsing, a loin attack, a goring ox, or a band of thieves at night, must make a Bracha. The ashkenazic minhag is like this opinion. <Ref>S”A 219:9, Mishna Brurah 219:32 </ref> For specific situations see a posek. <Ref>See also Piskei Teshuvot 218, Halichot Shlomo 23:1 </ref> | ||
# Ashkenazim hold that no Bracha is made for traveling | # Ashkenazim hold that no Bracha is made for traveling from city to city unless there’s a lot of wild animals or thieves. However, Sephardim hold that any travel from city to city obligates a Bracha if the trip was a Parsah (72 minutes). <Ref>S”A 219:7, Yalkut Yosef 219:17 </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> | # 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 that’s of potential mortal danger, | ==For sickness== | ||
# For sickness that’s of potential mortal danger, Birkat HaGomel is required when healed. 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> | |||
==Before a minyan== | |||
# The Bracha of HaGomel was established to be said before a minyan, preferably with two Talmediei Chachamim, and if there’s no minyan available one may not make HaGomel but rather should wait to find one. <Ref>S”A 219:3, Buir Halacha D”H VeYesh Omerim, Shoneh Halachot 219:2, Piskei Teshuvot 219:15 </ref> | # The Bracha of HaGomel was established to be said before a minyan, preferably with two Talmediei Chachamim, and if there’s no minyan available one may not make HaGomel but rather should wait to find one. <Ref>S”A 219:3, Buir Halacha D”H VeYesh Omerim, Shoneh Halachot 219:2, Piskei Teshuvot 219:15 </ref> | ||
# The minhag is to say HaGomel after Kriyat HaTorah | # The minhag is to say HaGomel after Kriyat HaTorah in front of the Torah. <ref>Mishna Brurah 219:2 </ref> | ||
==When it should be said== | |||
# Preferably HaGomel should be said within 3 days and it’s preferable to be done within 3 days even if it’s not said after Kriyat HaTorah before the Torah rather than waiting until later to say it after Kiryat HaTorah. If it can’t be done within 3 days it should be said within 30 days, and if it can’t be said in 30 says it should be said whenever one wants. <Ref>S”A 219:6, Mishna Brurah 219:2. See Piskei Teshuvot 219:4 who writes there’s a minhag who are lenient to wait until Shabbat to say HaGomel at the Torah. </ref> | # Preferably HaGomel should be said within 3 days and it’s preferable to be done within 3 days even if it’s not said after Kriyat HaTorah before the Torah rather than waiting until later to say it after Kiryat HaTorah. If it can’t be done within 3 days it should be said within 30 days, and if it can’t be said in 30 says it should be said whenever one wants. <Ref>S”A 219:6, Mishna Brurah 219:2. See Piskei Teshuvot 219:4 who writes there’s a minhag who are lenient to wait until Shabbat to say HaGomel at the Torah. </ref> | ||
==Women== | |||
# The minhag is that women don’t make HaGomel however if a women who gave birth, happens to be in front of a minyan, she may say HaGomel. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 219:3, Halichot Shlomo 23:4, Vezot HaBracha (pg 158) </ref> | # The minhag is that women don’t make HaGomel however if a women who gave birth, happens to be in front of a minyan, she may say HaGomel. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 219:3, Halichot Shlomo 23:4, Vezot HaBracha (pg 158) </ref> | ||
==Listening to someone else say HaGomel== | |||
# Someone who listens to someone else make HaGomel has fulfilled the obligation if one heard the entire Bracha. However, if the one making the Hagomel wasn’t obligated in the Bracha, someone who’s listening doesn’t fulfill the obligation unless one answers Amen. <Ref> S”A 219:4,5 </ref> | # Someone who listens to someone else make HaGomel has fulfilled the obligation if one heard the entire Bracha. However, if the one making the Hagomel wasn’t obligated in the Bracha, someone who’s listening doesn’t fulfill the obligation unless one answers Amen. <Ref> S”A 219:4,5 </ref> | ||
# Some are in doubt whether someone can fulfill the obligation of the person listening if the listener and the one making the Bracha have different reasons for obligation of the HaGomel. Rather, only someone who is obligated in HaGomel for the same reason should fulfill someone else’s obligation. <ref> Hagot Rabbi Akiva Eiger 219:5 leaves this question in doubt. Therefore this situation should be avoided (see Piskei Teshuvot 219 note 90). </ref> However, some argue that anyone who’s obligated in HaGomel can fulfill the obligation of someone else. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Otzer Dinim LeIsha pg 162-4) </ref> | # Some are in doubt whether someone can fulfill the obligation of the person listening if the listener and the one making the Bracha have different reasons for obligation of the HaGomel. Rather, only someone who is obligated in HaGomel for the same reason should fulfill someone else’s obligation. <ref> Hagot Rabbi Akiva Eiger 219:5 leaves this question in doubt. Therefore this situation should be avoided (see Piskei Teshuvot 219 note 90). </ref> However, some argue that anyone who’s obligated in HaGomel can fulfill the obligation of someone else. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Otzer Dinim LeIsha pg 162-4) </ref> | ||
