Can you start the day in the middle of a berocho?
When I wandered through blogs that looked interesting, I stumbled about this post, where the author, Mar Gavriel, describes his hashkomas haboker routine, starting with אלהי נשמה. This is what the Gemoro suggests, this is what the Yotz'e Seforad do, and what the Benei Ashkenaz did until the Mahara"m zatza"l.
Fine.
My question is: This is a berocho - why doesn't it start with בא"א אמ"ה? The best answer seems to be it is a berocho ha-semucho lachaveirtah. In fact, this is why some poskim, obviously Ashkenazim, said one shouldn't answer Omein after אשר יצר, only after the (immediately following) אלהי נשמה.
A by-pass could be to first open one's eyes, saying פוקח עוורים, and then add אלהי נשמה, but that isn't what the Gemoro says, or the minhog.
Fine.
My question is: This is a berocho - why doesn't it start with בא"א אמ"ה? The best answer seems to be it is a berocho ha-semucho lachaveirtah. In fact, this is why some poskim, obviously Ashkenazim, said one shouldn't answer Omein after אשר יצר, only after the (immediately following) אלהי נשמה.
A by-pass could be to first open one's eyes, saying פוקח עוורים, and then add אלהי נשמה, but that isn't what the Gemoro says, or the minhog.
posted by Phillip Minden at 11/01/2005 05:32:00 a.m.
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A by-pass could be to first open one's eyes, saying פוקח עוורים, and then add אלהי נשמה, but that isn't what the Gemoro says, or the minhog.
Interesting question. This opens the general question of how valid it is to use little "tricks", not mentioned in the Gemoro or practiced in existing minhogim, to solve halakhic problems that must have already existed in the time of the Gemoro or of the creation of the minhogim.
The real problem is when people start to think that those "tricks" are the עצם of the mitzvo. How many BTs (or even FFBs) have you met who think that "The mitzvo of ארבעת המנים is performed by first holding the esrôg pointing down, and then holding it pointing up", or "The mitzvo of Tefillas Hadderekh is performed by relieving onself, saying אשר יצר, and then continuing יהי רצון, etc. ברוך אתה יי שומע תפילה"!
Le Cafetier,
What seems the most pashut read of the gemarra is that before one goes to sleep, one says, "haMapil," goes to sleep, and says, "Elohai Neshama," thus perhaps the latter ברכה is connected to the former. If so, you would be correct in saying it seems to be blessing connected to a previous blessing (ברכה הסמוכה לחברתה).
Drew: This is an interesting idea, but do you think sleeping is really not a hefsek?
Drew's idea already appears in a mediaeval source. IIRC, it's the Abudarham.
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