[Avodah] Friday Nighr blessings (was "Re: Negiah and Friday night brachot")

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah Digest V26#41, RSG apparently replied to something I wrote:
> It has been acknowledged that the Bircat Habanim is a Minhag... but may
not apply to children who already have their own households.??? <
That was my suggestion.  (Again, please see Avodah v8 [Oct2001] for the
previous discussion -- one way to locate it is the Avodah "B" index: look
for "Bir... Haban..." subjects.)

> At all the?Erev Shabbat meals that I have attended as a guest I have seen
the Baal Habayit bless their children regardless?of age or marital
status.?? Since this is a Minhag, I would be interested in the experience
and action of other people on this list.?? I bless my daughter after which
she blesses her three year old son.?? To me this is a true representation
of Mesorah (though only Minhag) and?the embodiment of our people's
timelessness, as hopefully my daughter will bless her eventual grown son
and he will then?turn around and bless his children.?? <
My mother shetichyeh still blesses me whenever she has the opportunity, and
I enjoy receiving a b'rachah from my father-in-law (whom I call "Dad" and
whom I think of that way, esp. as my father a'h' passed away a few days
before I officially became his son-in-law).  I'm not chalilah denying the
benefits, emotional power, etc. of such a custom.

> Finally, do we have? a source as to how old Ephratm and Menashe were at
the time of their blessings from Yaakov and?if they had families at that
time? <
Last, and not least, I would not compare a deathbed-b'rachah situation to
our discussion.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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