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# For lightning and thunder, if they come at the same time or right after one another and one didn’t start to recite any Bracha, one should only recite [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] and it will cover both the lightning and thunder. If, however, there is a break between the lightning and the thunder such that one already began to say [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] on the lightning, then one should say finish [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] on the lighting and recite SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam on the thunder.<Ref>Mishna Brurah 227:5, Vezot HaBracha (pg 153) in name of Rav Elyashiv </ref> | # For lightning and thunder, if they come at the same time or right after one another and one didn’t start to recite any Bracha, one should only recite [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] and it will cover both the lightning and thunder. If, however, there is a break between the lightning and the thunder such that one already began to say [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] on the lightning, then one should say finish [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]] on the lighting and recite SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam on the thunder.<Ref>Mishna Brurah 227:5, Vezot HaBracha (pg 153) in name of Rav Elyashiv </ref> | ||
# If one didn’t see the lighting and only heard thunder one should recite SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam and then if later one sees lightning one should recite [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]].<Ref>Mishna Brurah 227:5 </ref> | # If one didn’t see the lighting and only heard thunder one should recite SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam and then if later one sees lightning one should recite [[Oseh Maaseh Beresheet]].<Ref>Mishna Brurah 227:5 </ref> | ||
# If the storm cleared up completely and there were no clouds and then another storm came, one can recite another Bracha for the lightning and thunder of the next storm, however within one storm one only recites one Bracha unless the storm continues | # If the storm cleared up completely and there were no clouds and then another storm came, one can recite another Bracha for the lightning and thunder of the next storm, however within one storm one only recites one Bracha unless the storm continues into the next day.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 227:2 writes that one shouldn’t recite another Bracha on thunder and lightning unless the storm has cleared up. Mishna Brurah 227:8 emphasizes that it must have completely cleared up unless it continues to the next day in which case a new Bracha is needed in any case. This is also the opinion of Yalkut Yosef (vol 3 pg 622).</ref> If someone recited the bracha during the day and then the storm continues into the night, a new bracha is not recited.<Ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 154) quotes Az Nidbaru 6:32 and Rav Moshe Shternbach who hold that one doesn’t recite a new Bracha in the morning unless one slept and the night has passed. Chazon Ovadia (Brachot p. 465) agrees that a new bracha is not recited at night if one already made a bracha that day and it is the same storm.</ref> | ||
# The Bracha on lightning and thunder must be said within [[Toch Kedi Dibbur]] (short period of time). <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:12 </ref> | # The Bracha on lightning and thunder must be said within [[Toch Kedi Dibbur]] (short period of time). <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:12 </ref> | ||
# One may recite the Bracha even if one only saw the light from the lightning and didn’t see the bolt. <Ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo page 287, Sh"t Minchat Shlomo 2:4:34) writes that one may recite the bracha on lightning even if one only saw the flash from the lightning and not the bolt because one really feels Hashem's greatness and the greatness of His creations even without seeing the bolt. This is quoted in Vezot HaBracha (pg 156). Rav Yacov Kamenetsky in Emes Liyaakov (Siman 227 in the footnote), [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=880&st=&pgnum=47 Sh"t Az Nidberu 6:23], Chazon Ovadia ([[Berachot]] page 466), and Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 12:21 agree.</ref> | # One may recite the Bracha even if one only saw the light from the lightning and didn’t see the bolt. <Ref> Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Halichot Shlomo page 287, Sh"t Minchat Shlomo 2:4:34) writes that one may recite the bracha on lightning even if one only saw the flash from the lightning and not the bolt because one really feels Hashem's greatness and the greatness of His creations even without seeing the bolt. This is quoted in Vezot HaBracha (pg 156). Rav Yacov Kamenetsky in Emes Liyaakov (Siman 227 in the footnote), [http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=880&st=&pgnum=47 Sh"t Az Nidberu 6:23], Chazon Ovadia ([[Berachot]] page 466), and Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 12:21 agree.</ref> | ||
