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==The Bracha==
==The Bracha==
# Sephardim shouldn’t say the Bracha of HaMapil with Shem UMalchut unless one goes to sleep before Chatzot (midnight by halachic hours). <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Brachot pg 664) </ref>
# Sephardim shouldn’t say the Bracha of HaMapil with Shem UMalchut unless one goes to sleep before Chatzot (midnight by halachic hours). <Ref> Yalkut Yosef (Brachot pg 664) </ref>
==When the Bracha should be said==
# The Birchat HaMapil should be made when one is going to sleep (one doesn’t need to wait until sleep over takes oneself) <ref>Mishna Brurah 239:3 </ref>
==Not speaking after Kriyat Shema Al HaMitah==
==Not speaking after Kriyat Shema Al HaMitah==
# Once you have said קריאת שמע על המטה you shouldn’t speak, eat, or drink. Before one said the Bracha of HaMapil, if one needs to eat, drink, or say something really important there is a possibility to be lenient, and one should repeat Shema. However, if one already said the Bracha of HaMapil one shouldn’t make any interruption. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 239:4 says that it is מותר to speak if it is important, but once you said המפיל it is a הפסק between the ברכה and the sleeping. The רמ"א says that you shouldn’t speak rather one should go to bed right after Kriyat Shema Al HaMitah. So holds the Yalkut Yosef (Brachot pg 664). </ref>
# Once you have said קריאת שמע על המטה you shouldn’t speak, eat, or drink. Before one said the Bracha of HaMapil, if one needs to eat, drink, or say something really important there is a possibility to be lenient, and one should repeat Shema. However, if one already said the Bracha of HaMapil one shouldn’t make any interruption unless there’s a serious need. <Ref> Piskei Teshuvot 239:3. Mishna Brurah 239:4 says that it is מותר to speak if it is important, but once you said המפיל it is a הפסק between the ברכה and the sleeping. The רמ"א says that you shouldn’t speak rather one should go to bed right after Kriyat Shema Al HaMitah. So holds the Yalkut Yosef (Brachot pg 664). </ref>
# Someone who wants to say the Bracha before leaving the Bet Midrash and not to say it in the room not to be bothered one may do so (but afterwards one shouldn’t make any interruptions besides going to the room and going to sleep). <Ref>Halichot Shlomo (Tefilla pg 170) </ref>
# Someone who wants to say the Bracha before leaving the Bet Midrash and not to say it in the room not to be bothered one may do so (but afterwards one shouldn’t make any interruptions besides going to the room and going to sleep). <Ref>Halichot Shlomo (Tefilla pg 170) </ref>
==If one didn't fall asleep==
==If one didn't fall asleep==
# Even if one didn’t end up falling asleep the Bracha was considered in vain because the Bracha was said about people in the world going to sleep but was established for when one tried going to sleep. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 239:3 </ref>
# Even if one didn’t end up falling asleep the Bracha was considered in vain because the Bracha was said about people in the world going to sleep but was established for when one tried going to sleep. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 239:3 </ref>