[Avodah] New Brachos

[Simon Montagu]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM, <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone on another list commented that Teimanim STILL do the Targum on
> the Torah and Haftara readings which led me to query:
>
> 1 How come Sephardim no longer do Targum? [OK I understand why - but
> here's the kicker:]
> 2 And since they don't - how can they make a brachah on the Torah
> Reading - since the reading without Targum fails to conform to Hazal's
> requirements - it should be a doubtful brachah?
>
>
A stronger question might be, how can each ole make two berachot (as opposed
to "poteah" making the beracha rishona and "hotem" making the
beracha aharona on the whole reading as Hazal specify).

However, I think that Sephardim accept "lo omrim 'safek berachot lehakel'
bimkom minhag" at least where there is no specific ruling against the
beracha in the SA. I believe that ROY uses this principle in a teshuva
somewhere, but I don't remember the exact reference.
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