[Avodah] Friday Nighr blessings

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

I found some sources for this in "Sefer Shema Beni / A Halachic Compendium on the laws of Child Rearing" by Rabbi Dovid Weinberger. He writes:

> Even older children, including married children, should
> receive brochos from their parents.

His sources include:

-- Maavar Yabok 43.

-- Yesodei Yeshurun, section "Kiddush", that one should use both hands.

-- Pachad Yitzchak note 2, pg 54 - to use one hand for a single child, but both hands for a married son.

-- Shu"t Be'er Moshe vol 4, #125 - that the Yaave"tz says to use both hands.

-- Torah Temimah, Naso -- that the Gr"a used only one hand, to avoid appearing like Birkas Kohanim.

Of those seforim, I have only the last one, and it seems to be slightly off-topic. Perhaps there is another Torah Temimah in Naso which talks about giving the children a Shabbos Bracha, but what I found was at the bottom of page 82 (or Mem Aleph amud beis, if you prefer), in the paragraph "Va'ani". He writes there that the Gra gave a bracha to the Noda B'Yehuda at his wedding with only one hand, because using two hands is done only for Birkas Kohanim.

However, an article by Prof. Daniel Sperber of Bar Ilan at http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/vayechi/sper.html gives a very different version of that story. (And he cites many of Rabbi Weinberger's sources too.)

Akiva Miller

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