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==Origin of the obligation== | ==Origin of the obligation== | ||
# Some hold that this law is a biblical obligation, while others hold it's of rabbinic origin. <ref> See Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 at length. The Chida (Machzik Bracha 290:1) writes that going out of the way to complete a hundred [[Brachot]] daily is only a virtuous practice. However, the Petach Dvir 290:3, Sdei Chemed (Chet 34), and Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 write that it’s a complete obligation. [Chazon Ovadyah ([[Shabbat]] vol 2 pg 339) writes that even the Chida may mean that it’s only virtuous to go out of the way to make the Bracha oneself but accumulating a hundred (including [[Brachot]] one listens to such as the [[Brachot]] of Torah reading) is an obligation.] Tur 46 also says this obligation is also rabbinic and the pasuk brought in menachot 43b is an asmachta. The Arizal in Shaar Ruach Hakodesh 4a says that there is a level in blessing in heaven that the only way to get to it is saying 100 [[berachot]] each day. Kitzur S"A 6:7 writes that a person is obligated to make a hundred [[brachot]] daily.</ref> | # Some hold that this law is a biblical obligation, while others hold it's of rabbinic origin. <ref> See Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 at length. The Chida (Machzik Bracha 290:1) writes that going out of the way to complete a hundred [[Brachot]] daily is only a virtuous practice. However, the Petach Dvir 290:3, Sdei Chemed (Chet 34), and Sh"t Atret Paz 1:1 write that it’s a complete obligation. [Chazon Ovadyah ([[Shabbat]] vol 2 pg 339) writes that even the Chida may mean that it’s only virtuous to go out of the way to make the Bracha oneself but accumulating a hundred (including [[Brachot]] one listens to such as the [[Brachot]] of Torah reading) is an obligation.] Tur 46 also says this obligation is also rabbinic and the pasuk brought in menachot 43b is an asmachta. The Arizal in Shaar Ruach Hakodesh 4a says that there is a level in blessing in heaven that the only way to get to it is saying 100 [[berachot]] each day. Kitzur S"A 6:7 writes that a person is obligated to make a hundred [[brachot]] daily.</ref> | ||
# There are several sources and reasons given for this law including | # There are several sources and reasons given for this law including: | ||
## David Hamelech made 100 [[berachot]] a day to stop the plague that was killing a 100 people every day. <ref> Bamidbar Rabba Parasha 18, Tur 46 quoting Rabbi Natronai Gaon </ref> | ## David Hamelech made 100 [[berachot]] a day to stop the plague that was killing a 100 people every day. <ref> Bamidbar Rabba Parasha 18, Tur 46 quoting Rabbi Natronai Gaon </ref> | ||
## The Gematria of each letter of צדיק/tzaddik - 90 / צ[[amen]]'s a day, 4 / ד Kedushos a day, 10 י [[amen]] yehiy shemei rabba's, and 100 / ק [[berachot]] a day. | ## The Gematria of each letter of צדיק/tzaddik - 90 / צ[[amen]]'s a day, 4 / ד Kedushos a day, 10 י [[amen]] yehiy shemei rabba's, and 100 / ק [[berachot]] a day.<ref>The [http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=34973&st=&pgnum=357 Reishit Chachma (Shaar HaKedusha ch. 17 s.v. BePrat)] writes that the letters of Tzaddik are a hint to saying 90 amens, 4 Kedushot, 100 [[Brachot]], 10 Kadishim. Part of this hint, the Reishit Chachma derives from the Zohar (Tikkunim page 29). </ref> | ||
## Corresponding to the one hundred poles of the mishkan | ## Corresponding to the one hundred poles of the mishkan | ||
## The gemara (Menachot 43b) learns from the Pasuk in Ekev- mah Hashem elokecha shoel meemach - ...וְעַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מָ֚ה ה' אֱלֹקיךָ שֹׁאֵ֖ל מֵֽעִמָּ֑ךְ כִּ֣י אִם־לְ֠יִרְאָה …Gemara: don't read "mah/מה" (what), but instead "me'ah" (100). (Devarim 10:12) <ref> Rashi Menachot 43b. Tosafot Menachot 43b "shoel" suggest that it is because the verse has 100 letters. </ref> | ## The gemara (Menachot 43b) learns from the Pasuk in Ekev- mah Hashem elokecha shoel meemach - ...וְעַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מָ֚ה ה' אֱלֹקיךָ שֹׁאֵ֖ל מֵֽעִמָּ֑ךְ כִּ֣י אִם־לְ֠יִרְאָה …Gemara: don't read "mah/מה" (what), but instead "me'ah" (100). (Devarim 10:12) <ref> Rashi Menachot 43b. Tosafot Menachot 43b "shoel" suggest that it is because the verse has 100 letters. </ref> | ||
