[Avodah] Aromatherapy

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:31:20 EST
T613K at aol.com wrote:

...

> Suppose you have a scented candle burning and it keeps burning for twelve  
> hours -- and you walk in and out of the room -- and the scent wafts through the  
> whole house -- and even after the candle burns out, the scent lingers -- how  
> would you determine that you had reached a point where you could say, "That's 
>  it, I'm done smelling, time for the bracha acharona."

This is actually a thorny problem with regard to Berachah Rishonah,
too; at what point is a new one required?  The Poskim discuss this in
the context of the custom to repeatedly smell Besamim on Yom
Ha'Kippurim to complete the Hundred Berachos.

Yitzhak
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