[Avodah] Yom Tov Sheni for Olim LeReget to the Beit Mikdash

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Micha
>> While trying to find an answer, BTW, I found that R' Tam holds that yom
>> ov sheini is actually minhag (in the technical sense), not a taqanah.
>> e uses this on Beitzah 4b as an example of making berakhos on minhagim.
> 
> Correct this is a big machloqes RT and Rambam
> 
> A lot of Sephardic hardliners think RT manufactured bracha levatala

"Manufactured"?  He proves from the gemara that they did say a bracha
on Hallel of Rosh Chodesh.


> based
> upon leveraging this "bracha on a minhag" to allow bracha on Hallel of
> Rosh Hodesh etc.

You have it backwards.  RT doesn't start with a premise that one can
say a bracha on a minhag, and "leverage" that to allow the bracha on
Hallel.  He *starts* with the gemara about Hallel, which strongly
implies that they did say a bracha on it, and *concludes* that one
says a bracha on something that is said because of a minhag, but not
on an action that is done because of minhag.

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