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==Seeing a desert== | ==Seeing a desert== | ||
# Upon seeing a desert one should make the Bracha of Oseh Maaseh Beresheet. <Ref>S”A 228:1 </ref> This Bracha is only made on deserts that people refrain from traveling through because of wild animals and other dangers and this is uncommon except in the very large deserts far from settlement. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 228:4, Vezot HaBracha (pg 155) in name of Rav Moshe Shternbach</ref> | # Upon seeing a desert one should make the Bracha of Oseh Maaseh Beresheet. <Ref>S”A 228:1 </ref> This Bracha is only made on deserts that people refrain from traveling through because of wild animals and other dangers and this is uncommon except in the very large deserts far from settlement. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 228:4, Vezot HaBracha (pg 155) in name of Rav Moshe Shternbach</ref> | ||
== | ==Comet or Earthquake== | ||
# For seeing a comet or experiencing an earthquake one should make the Bracha Oseh מעשה Beresheet. <Ref>S”A 257:1 says that for seeing a comet or experiencing an earthquake one should make Oseh Maaseh Beresheet and if one wants one can make the Bracha SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam instead. Mishna Brurah 227:6 is clear that it’s either one Bracha or the other but not both. So rules Vezot HaBracha (pg 155, chapter 17). Artscroll Siddur just quotes the more primary Bracha quoted in S”A, Oseh מעשה Beresheet. </ref> | # For seeing a comet or experiencing an earthquake one should make the Bracha Oseh מעשה Beresheet. <Ref>S”A 257:1 says that for seeing a comet or experiencing an earthquake one should make Oseh Maaseh Beresheet and if one wants one can make the Bracha SheCocho UGevurato Maaleh Olam instead. Mishna Brurah 227:6 is clear that it’s either one Bracha or the other but not both. So rules Vezot HaBracha (pg 155, chapter 17). Artscroll Siddur just quotes the more primary Bracha quoted in S”A, Oseh מעשה Beresheet. </ref> | ||
# If there was a break between one earthquake and the next, another Bracha is required. <Ref>Shaarei Teshuva 227:1, Vezot HaBracha (pg 157) </ref> | # If there was a break between one earthquake and the next, another Bracha is required. <Ref>Shaarei Teshuva 227:1, Vezot HaBracha (pg 157) </ref> | ||
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# If the storm cleared up completely and there were no clouds and then another storm came, one can make another Bracha for the lightning and thunder of the next storm, however within one storm one only makes one Bracha unless the storm continues to the next day. <Ref>S”A 227:2 writes that one shouldn’t make 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. So rules Yalkut Yosef (vol 3 pg 622). Vezot HaBracha (pg 154) in name of Az Nidbaru 6:32 and Rav Moshe Shternbach add that one doesn’t make a new Bracha in the morning unless one slept and the night has passed. </ref> | # If the storm cleared up completely and there were no clouds and then another storm came, one can make another Bracha for the lightning and thunder of the next storm, however within one storm one only makes one Bracha unless the storm continues to the next day. <Ref>S”A 227:2 writes that one shouldn’t make 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. So rules Yalkut Yosef (vol 3 pg 622). Vezot HaBracha (pg 154) in name of Az Nidbaru 6:32 and Rav Moshe Shternbach add that one doesn’t make a new Bracha in the morning unless one slept and the night has passed. </ref> | ||
# The Bracha on lightning and thunder must be said within Toch Kedi Dibbur. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:12 </ref> | # The Bracha on lightning and thunder must be said within Toch Kedi Dibbur. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:12 </ref> | ||
# One may make the Bracha even if one only saw the light from the lightning and didn’t see the bolt. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha (pg 156) in name of Rav Shlomo Zalman, Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 12:21 </ref> | # One may make the Bracha even if one only saw the light from the lightning and didn’t see the bolt. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha (pg 156) in name of Rav Shlomo Zalman, Rav Shlomo Zalman himself in Halichot Shlomo page 287 and Sh"t Minchat Shlomo 2:4:34 because one really feels Hashem's greatness and the greatness of the creations, even without seeing the bolt, Emes Liyaakov 227 in the footnote, Sh"t Az Nidberu 6:23, Chazon Ovadia on Tu B'Shvat and Berachot page 466, Sh”t Tzitz Eliezer 12:21 </ref> | ||
# If one’s hands are unclean from going to the bathroom and not washing yet or for going to sleep at night and not having washed yet, and right then one saw lightning or heard thunder, one can’t make the Bracha. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:11, Vezot HaBracha (pg 154), see there for the case of where one needs to go to the bathroom. </ref> | # If one’s hands are unclean from going to the bathroom and not washing yet or for going to sleep at night and not having washed yet, and right then one saw lightning or heard thunder, one can’t make the Bracha. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 227:11, Vezot HaBracha (pg 154), see there for the case of where one needs to go to the bathroom. </ref> | ||
# Even one who is in the middle of learning, should stop to recite this beracha. <ref> Sh"t Beer Moshe 2:10 </ref> | |||
==Questions and Answers== | ==Questions and Answers== | ||
