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* Yabia Omer 10:5 concludes that when saying [[Amen]] [[Amen]] [[Amen]] in Birkat Halevana one should pause between each [[Amen]]. This is also the ruling of Kaf HaChaim 61:43. </ref> | * Yabia Omer 10:5 concludes that when saying [[Amen]] [[Amen]] [[Amen]] in Birkat Halevana one should pause between each [[Amen]]. This is also the ruling of Kaf HaChaim 61:43. </ref> | ||
==Women== | ==Women== | ||
# Women are exempt from Birkat HaLevanah | # Women are exempt from Birkat HaLevanah. Even though Ashkenazic women usually are permitted to volunteer to make a bracha even when they are exempt, the minhag is that they don't say Birkat HaLevanah. <ref> Sh"t Ateret Paz (vol 4 Chap 10 #37), Magen Avraham 426:1, Sh"t Haelef Licha Shlomo OC 193 </ref> Others argue that they should really recite it.<ref> Rav Soloveitchik (cited in Nefesh Harav pg. 176) </ref> | ||
==Blind== | ==Blind== | ||
# Blind men should recite birkat halevana even though they cannot see the moon. <ref> Mishneh Brura 426:1 </ref> | # Blind men should recite birkat halevana even though they cannot see the moon. <ref> Mishneh Brura 426:1 </ref> | ||
