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27 02, 2021

Berakhot for Latecomers to Megillah

February 27th, 2021|Berakhot, Orach Chayim, Purim|

QUESTION

New York, NY

I said berakhot and started leining megillah, for a small group of people, when one minute in, a few people show up. are any of the following workable solutions, for how they can be yotzei?

Restart from the beginning of the Megillah. If so, the new arrivals would say the berakhot, before we restart?
Pause, and have them read to themselves the first minute of the megillah, from their chumash, until they catch up. Here too, would they make sure to say the berakhot before doing that?

ANSWER

Either of those would work. Given that whichever solution you adopt, the rest of the people

26 02, 2021

Repeating Berakhot for Megillah if Interrupted for a Medical Call

February 26th, 2021|Berakhot, Orach Chayim, Purim|

QUESTION

Canada

If a ba’al korei gets an important call mid-megillah that they can’t ignore, can they continue the megillah from when the call came in or do they need to repeat the megillah? Should they repeat the berakhot?

ANSWER

The general halakha is that even a large interruption – כדי לגמור את כולה – is bedieved okay in the case of megillah (and pretty much everything else) – see Shulchan Arukh OC 690:5 and Rema. However, as Mishnah Berurah 690:18 points out, we find in Hilkhot Keriat Shema (Shulchan Arukh OC 65:1) that if the interruption was מחמת אונס, due to something out of your control, you do have to go

15 11, 2020

Nusach of Berakhot for Mitzvot that One Performs for Others

November 15th, 2020|Berakhot, Yoreh De'ah|

QUESTION

Maryland, USA

When putting up a mezuzah on someone else’s behalf, the berakhah is “al keviat mezuzah” instead of the usual “likboa mezuzah.” Same for milah, if parent does it themselves, it’s “lamul et haben” (according to Rambam) but if mohel does it it’s “al hamilah.” Why is there a distinction for some mitzvot, while for others like matzah and maror and lulav, we say “al ha…” even if we ourselves are doing it?

ANSWER

First, that’s only according to Rambam. The practice (at least amongst Ashkenazim) is to always keep

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