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# If one removes the talit 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> | # If one removes the talit 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”? == | ==What is “a short period of time”? == | ||
# It’s | # 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. | |||
* [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), Tzitzit Halacha Pesukah | * 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> | ||
* Ezor Yisrael pg 39 | |||
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## Sephardim should follow the opinion of that defines a short period as a half hour. <ref> Sh”t Yabea Omer 8:2(4), Yalkut Yosef (Tzitzit pg 222), Sh”t Or Letzion 2:44(10), Sh”t Otzrot Yosef 1:28 </ref> | ## Sephardim should follow the opinion of that defines a short period as a half hour. <ref> Sh”t Yabea Omer 8:2(4), Yalkut Yosef (Tzitzit pg 222), Sh”t Or Letzion 2:44(10), Sh”t Otzrot Yosef 1:28 </ref> | ||
