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# The salvation which requires a Bracha is only for situations where there was a life threatening danger which under normal circumstances death would be incurred. Examples include: a rock falling on a person’s head, a wall falling on a person, a loaded wagon running over a person, falling from a very tall ladder. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 218:9, Mishna Brurah 218:28, Shoneh Halachot 218:8 </ref> | # The salvation which requires a Bracha is only for situations where there was a life threatening danger which under normal circumstances death would be incurred. Examples include: a rock falling on a person’s head, a wall falling on a person, a loaded wagon running over a person, falling from a very tall ladder. <Ref>Shulchan Aruch 218:9, Mishna Brurah 218:28, Shoneh Halachot 218:8 </ref> | ||
# If a person was in a car accident even if the car flipped over several times and was saved he shouldn't recite this bracha with Hashem's name.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 218:4 and Halacha Brurah 218:19 write that we're concerned for the opinion of Shulchan Aruch that one only recites the bracha for a supernatural miracle. The example they give is someone who survived a terrible car accident. Halacha Brurah writes that it is true even if the car flipped over several times. Yalkut Yosef quotes his father, Rav Ovadia, that someone who survived a terrorist attack of being stabbed recites this bracha without Hashem's name.</ref> | # If a person was in a car accident even if the car flipped over several times and was saved he shouldn't recite this bracha with Hashem's name.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 218:4 and Halacha Brurah 218:19 write that we're concerned for the opinion of Shulchan Aruch that one only recites the bracha for a supernatural miracle. The example they give is someone who survived a terrible car accident. Halacha Brurah writes that it is true even if the car flipped over several times. Yalkut Yosef quotes his father, Rav Ovadia, that someone who survived a terrorist attack of being stabbed recites this bracha without Hashem's name.</ref> | ||
# A Holocaust survivor may recite a beracha upon visiting the concentration camp he could have been murdered in. Similarly, his children and grandchildren could, as well.<ref>[https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%91%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%AA%D7%95_%D7%99%D7%92_%D7%97 BeTzel HaChochmah 5:62], [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%91%D7%9C_%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%9C%D7%AA%D7%95_%D7%99%D7%92_%D7%97 Chevel Nachalato 13:8], Avnei Derech 11:32</ref> | |||
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