[Avodah] Birchos haMitzvah on Yom Tov Sheini shel Golios

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> 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?

Wait a second.  You still haven't shown where it is that RT uses
YT sheni as a proof for his position on brachot.  You said Beitza 4b,
but that was obviously a typo, since the only Tosfos on that page has
nothing to do with this.

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

On the contrary, it is the basis of his chidush, which is to distinguish
between minhagim of speech and of action.  (And where do you see that
Rashi disagrees?)

 
> 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.

Why are the aravos not a cheftza shel mitzvah?


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