Tuesday, April 22, 2025

How Can We Recite a Brocho on Sefiras Ha'Omer When We Are Not Sure That We Will Complete it?

Includes a new (and perhaps true!) insight on the unique language of being "yotzei" a mitzvah vs. being "mekayem" a mitzvah.


A recording for the BHP daily Halachic WhatsApp group https://chat.whatsapp.com/Gz8rrxqRcfy9rMOXRLG6GS

1 comment:

  1. Maybe we can give a very technical sevara: Sefeiq sefeiqa -- maybe we shouldn't hold like the Behag (that it's all one mitzvah), and maybe we will fulfill the mitzvah.

    My own thoughts when saying Birekhas Ahavah Rabba have been almost the reverse: Vesein belibeinu...
    Lishmor -- lavin
    veLaasos - mitzvos asei
    So, what's left for "ulqayeim"? So I had the thought that maybe we are referring to the qiyum shebeleiv, that we ask Hashem that we would be tokhin to have a qiyum of a permanent reshimah of the mitzvos.

    Yotzei yedei chovaso is indeed about leaving the place of chiyuv.

    But when I leave, I want the mitzvah to still be qayamah.

    What's a birkhas hamitzvah about? "Asher qideshanu bemitzvosav" -- not doing the mitzvah, but the qedushah one can obtain from doing it. Sounds like what I was identifying with "qiyum".

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