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# <div id="forwhichtrips"></div> According to some poskim, one should recite Tefillat HaDerech only if one is nervous about the trip. <Ref>R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R' Hershel Schachter in [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)]. </ref> Other poskim maintain that one should recite it regardless of whether one is nervous. <Ref>R' Yaakov Kamenetsky, quoted by Rabbi Schachter [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)] </ref> | # <div id="forwhichtrips"></div> According to some poskim, one should recite Tefillat HaDerech only if one is nervous about the trip. <Ref>R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R' Hershel Schachter in [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)]. </ref> Other poskim maintain that one should recite it regardless of whether one is nervous. <Ref>R' Yaakov Kamenetsky, quoted by Rabbi Schachter [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)] </ref> | ||
#Ashkenazim hold that when one travels a distance of 8000 [[Amot]] from one city to another city, one recites Tefillat HaDerech only if there is no city within 16,000 [[Amot]] along the path one is traveling. If there is a continuous line of cities along the way within 16,000 [[Amot]] from the city where one departed one should say Tefillat HaDerech without reciting Hashem’s name in the bracha. <Ref>Beiur Halacha 110:7 s.v. VeEin says that if there is a city with 8000 [[Amot]] along the way one should not say Tefillat HaDerech. Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 21:7) writes that one is only obligated in Tefillat HaDerech if one travels in an area in which there is no city for 16,000 [[Amot]]. He adds that we calculate the trip by distance and not time. Tefillah KeHilchata 27:26 rules that in order to make the bracha at the conclusion it must be a trip the distance of 4.7 km (based on the Chazon Ish’s measure of the [[Amah]]).</ref> Some disagree that one should recite the bracha as long as the destination one travels is more than 16000 amot.<ref>Shevet Halevi 10:21:1</ref> | #Ashkenazim hold that when one travels a distance of 8000 [[Amot]] from one city to another city, one recites Tefillat HaDerech only if there is no city within 16,000 [[Amot]] along the path one is traveling. If there is a continuous line of cities along the way within 16,000 [[Amot]] from the city where one departed one should say Tefillat HaDerech without reciting Hashem’s name in the bracha. <Ref>Beiur Halacha 110:7 s.v. VeEin says that if there is a city with 8000 [[Amot]] along the way one should not say Tefillat HaDerech. Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 21:7) writes that one is only obligated in Tefillat HaDerech if one travels in an area in which there is no city for 16,000 [[Amot]]. He adds that we calculate the trip by distance and not time. Tefillah KeHilchata 27:26 rules that in order to make the bracha at the conclusion it must be a trip the distance of 4.7 km (based on the Chazon Ish’s measure of the [[Amah]]).</ref> Some disagree that one should recite the bracha as long as the destination one travels is more than 16000 amot.<ref>Shevet Halevi 10:21:1 disagrees with the Biur Halacha and says that from the earlier poskim it seems that the only factor is the distance to the destination and not whether there are cities along the way. He clarifies in 10:21:2 that we measure a parsa by distance and not time. </ref> | ||
## The distance is measured according to the distance it takes to travel the roads even if the road is not straight and not according to the shortest most direct line. <Ref>Eshel Avraham MeButchach 110, Tehillat LeDavid 110:4, Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah, chap 21, note 7, pg 253), Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 </ref> | ## The distance is measured according to the distance it takes to travel the roads even if the road is not straight and not according to the shortest most direct line. <Ref>Eshel Avraham MeButchach 110, Tehillat LeDavid 110:4, Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah, chap 21, note 7, pg 253), Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 </ref> | ||
# Sephardim hold that if one travels in a car, train, boat, airplane or any other mode of transportation if one travels 72 minutes from one city to another city then one says Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 based on Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13, 6:48(9) </ref> | # Sephardim hold that if one travels in a car, train, boat, airplane or any other mode of transportation if one travels 72 minutes from one city to another city then one says Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 based on Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13, 6:48(9) </ref> | ||
