[Avodah] Birkat HaHammah

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From: "Joseph Mosseri" _joseph.mosseri at verizon.net_ 
(mailto:joseph.mosseri at verizon.net) 

>>I  clearly remember Birkat HaHammah in 1981 and at the time we were taught
that  this berakhah is recited once every 28 years when the sun is in the
exact  position it was in when it was created at the time of  Ma'aseh
Bereshit.
....According to
tradition Bereshit began on Rosh  Hodesh Nisan hence the 4th day (Wednesday)
of Ma'aseh Bereshit when the sun  was created had to be on the 4th of Nisan.
This berakhah must be recited on  the 4th of Nisan.
What is the source and the reasoning to say that this year  we will recite it
on Ereb Pesah the 14th of Nisan?

 
 
>>>>>
Why would you think the *sun* reaches some previous position on the same  
*lunar* date as it did the last time?  
 
As a matter of fact, the bracha is /not/ recited on the same Hebrew date  
after each 28-day cycle.
 
(Not that I know what it means anyway, that the sun is in the same position  
as it was on the fourth day of Creation.   Position vis-a-vis  what?  
Background constellations visible on earth?  Place in the  Galaxy?  In the Universe?)
 
BTW you also seem to be neglecting the opinion that the world started in  
Tishrei.  So we don't even know for sure what date Yom Revi'i of Bereishis  was.
 


--Toby Katz
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