[Avodah] Torah Geography & Dream Brachos

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' Gilad Field:
> 2) I saw in Sha'arim Metzuyanim B'Halacha (on KSA 50:3) where he
> quotes from the Pri HaSadeh (anyone know who he is?) Who says that if
> someone makes a bracha in a dream (because he dreamt he was drinking
> water) and he wakes up thirsty he needs to make "another" bracha.  He
> gives 2 reasons for this: 1) He wasn't a bar chiyuva while he was
> sleeping, and 2) the water was not considered "l'fanav" (in front of
> him) in that bracha.
> I don't have access to the full teshuva - but the whole question
> sounds very odd to me.  what would even be the hava amina that a
> bracha in a dream could apply to real life?

The Teshuvah is in Pri HaSadeh Cheilek 2:107. He doesn't explain the Hava Amina, but see YD 210:2 and YD 334:35 where things that happen in dreams do have Halachic significance. Interestingly, in Pri HaSadeh Cheilek 3:92.3 he discusses the question of what if a person hears someone else make a Berachah while sleep-talking - should he answer Amein? He says not to, because the person sleeping is not a Bar Chiyuva, so we don't answer Amein. He compares it to hearing an MP3 file of a Berachah - that one should not say Amein to that. (He actually says "phonograph" but I'm not sure how many people know that word... :-)  .) 

MeiInyan L'inyan, in Cheilek 3:32 he wants to know if listening o a recording of a woman is a problem of Kol Ishah. First he wants to be M'dayek from Rabbeinu Yonah that it isn't, because it isn't B'shaas Maaseh, but later. Then he says that one can't make that Diyuk, because Rabbeinu Yonah "Mistama" lived before the invention of phonographs, so one can't say that he meant that Diyuk. (!). (L'maaseh he comes out L'isur, because he says the problem is being M'orer Hirhur, and Mah Li if a person is listening from a different room or from a recording.) 
Agav, he explains a Yalkut that says on the Pasuk He'yei Atah L'am Mul Ha'Elokim that says that "You shoull d be like a Kli Malei Diburim." He says that's like a phonograph - it is full of words, but has no Da'as, so it can not become a Baal Gaaveh. So, too, Moshe should stay humble even when being the go-between Hashem and the people.

His name, BTW, was R' Eliezer Deitch and he was a Rov in Hungary in the early 1900s.

KT,
MYG