[Avodah] Birchos haMitzvah on Yom Tov Sheini shel Golios

[Micha Berger]

Was: Yom Tov Sheni for Olim LeReget to the Beit Mikdash

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:26pm GMT, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: Micha
:> While trying to find an answer, BTW, I found that R' Tam holds that yom
:> tov sheini is actually minhag (in the technical sense), not a taqanah.
:> he uses this on Beitzah 4b as an example of making berakhos on minhagim.

: Correct this is a big machloqes RT and Rambam

"This" being a new topic -- berakhos on minhagim. To close up the previous
topic, do we know that the Rambam's rejection of this raayah is based
on his assuming that yom tov sheini is a derabbanan?

BTW, there is no berakhah on chibut aravah (Sukkah 44b). R' Tam doesn't
discuss this raayah to the Rambam (and Rashi).

Rav Velevel Soloveitchik (on Hil' Berakhos 11:16) therefore argues that
both shitos hold that we make berakhos on minhagim that involve a cheftza
shel mitzvah, and do not make a berakhah if we do not. Leshitaso, the
machloqes between the two WRT Chatzi Hallel is whether it's enough to
qualify for the cheftzah of Hallal, even though some is omitted to avoid
the issur, or not. (Hat tip to RHJachter.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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