Making a New Bracha on Tzitzit: Difference between revisions

==Intent to put it back on==

# The Shulchan Aruch holds that if you remove your tallis for any period of time, even if you had intention to put it back on immediately, you have to make a new beracha <ref> Aruch Hashulchan 8:19 </ref>  

# The Rema disagrees and holds that if you remove a [[tallit]] with intention to put it back on within “a short period of time” one doesn’t make a new Bracha upon putting on the [[tallit]] a second time within that short period of time. <Ref> Rama 8:14 writes that if one removes the [[Talit]] with intent to put it back on one doesn’t make a Bracha. This is explained by the achronim based on the language of the Tur who writes that if one intends to put it back on immediately (מיד) then there’s no need for a new Bracha. This is also the opinion of Mishna Brurah 8:37 and Ezor Yisrael 8:14. </ref>  

# If one removes the [[tallit]] with intent to put it back on right away and then doesn’t put it on right away but rather tarries, a new Bracha is needed. <ref> S”A HaRav 8:24, Mishna Brurah 8:37, Ezor Yisrael 8:14 </ref>

==What is “a short period of time”? ==

# It’s unclear from the poskim what's considered "a short period of time". Many authorities define it as a unit of time, opinions ranging from a half hour to three hours, while other authorities define it as the time it takes to do a certain activity, some say that has to be a significant activity and some say it has to be a activity without a definite time limit. (See footnote for clarification).<ref>

* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/750553/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Hilchot_Tzitzit Rav Hershel Schachter] (Hilchot [[Tzitzit]] min 43), Hilchot Gra Veminhagim 1:17 (pg 20), Netivot Hachaim (3 pg 222), Or Torah (vol 23, 5751 Av, pg 714), and [[Tzitzit]] Halacha Pesukah (Rabbi Tzvi Kohen, 8:72 in the note) hold a half hour of removing the [[Tzitzit]] requires one to make a new Bracha.

* Rav Shlomo Zalman in Halichot Shlomo 3:7 writes that one should only make a new bracha is the [[tzitzit]] were removed for 3 hours. However, the footnote there clarifies that this number isn't exact. See also Rav Moshe Shternbach in Teshuvot VeHanhagot 1:32 who writes that one should make a new Bracha only if it has been an hour or two and one also left the house or building one was in.

* Ezor Yisrael (pg 39) writes that if you do a significant activity one should make a new Bracha, but if it’s a transitory activity, no new Bracha is required. Similarly, Piskei Teshuvot 8:23 concludes that if it’s a activity with a defined time limit, then no new Bracha is required, however if the activity doesn't have a definite time limit or one tarries after that activity, a new Bracha is required. </ref>

# Sephardim should follow the opinion of that defines a short period as a half hour. <ref> Sh”t Yabia Omer 8:2(4), Yalkut Yosef ([[Tzitzit]] pg 222), Sh”t Or Letzion 2:44(10), Sh”t Otzrot Yosef 1:28 </ref>

==Examples of momentarily==

# If one sees that his [[Tzitzit]] are inside out, one may take them off, flip it and then put it back on without a new Bracha. <Ref> Sh”t Bear Moshe 6:3(9) </ref>

==Changing places==

# For changing one’s place there’s no obligation to make a new Bracha. <Ref> Magen Avraham 8:18, Mishna Brurah 8:34, 37, piskei teshuvot 8:23(6), Ezor Yisrael 8:14, Tzitizit Halacha Pesuka (by Rav Tzvi Kohen) 8:73 </ref>

==Lending one’s tallit for a mitzvah==

# If one removed one’s [[tallit]] to give to someone getting an aliyah (or duchaning), no new Bracha is needed when getting back the [[tallit]]. <Ref> Bet Baruch 12:39, Tzitizit Halacha Pesuka (by Rav Tzvi Kohen) 8:77, Halichot Shlomo (3:7 in the notes), Rav Hershel Schachter (Hilchot [[Tzitzit]] min 43). However, Sh”t Rivivot Efraim 5:14 writes that this is a certain hesech hadaat. </ref>  

## For example, a person who gave his [[tallit]] to someone for an aliyah and instead it gets used for all the olim and it only gets returned after a half hour, a new Bracha is needed when returned. <Ref> Rabbi Hershel Schachter (Hilchot [[Tzitzit]] min 43) in as an example </ref>

## Similarly, if someone took the [[tallit]] from a person shoulders without asking, the owner doesn’t need to make a new Bracha when he gets it back unless the owner fears not getting the [[Talit]] back. <ref> Mishneh Halachot 15:7 who says that if a person took your [[tallit]] for an aliyah you don’t need a new Bracha, unless you thought you wouldn’t get your [[tallit]] back. </ref>

# If one gave a [[tallit]] to someone in order to fulfill the mitzvah and in order that the borrower can make a Bracha on it, the [[tallit]] was given as a gift on condition (Mattana Al Menat Lehachzir), there’s a dispute whether a person should make a new Bracha when the [[tallit]] is returned. <Ref> Sh”t bear Moshe 6:5 and Bet Baruch 12:39 hold that you need a new Bracha, while Sh”t hillel Omer 4 writes that no new Bracha is needed. </ref>