[Avodah] kosher cabbage

[Ben Waxman]

It has been a long time since I saw the source, but there are rules of when you make a bracha on a mitzvah. If the mitzva is dependent on another person, then one does not make a bracha. Therefore one doesn't make a bracha on giving tzedaqa.

The lack of a bracha does not prove that something is not a mitzva, but the making of a bracha does.

Repairing tefillin is probably a heksher miztva, not a mitzva in of itself. 

Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Prof. Levine 

  I really do not know about kashering meat, but there are mitzvos that one does not make a bracha on. Tzadakah is one comes to mind.  Hachnosos Orchim is another mitzva that one does not make a bracha on. I am sure that there are others that people can come up with. 

  Indeed, I would be interested in a list of mitzvos that have no bracha associated with them. 

  Settling in EY is a mitzva. Is there a bracha one makes? I really do not know. 

  Is repairing the parshios in tefillin or a mezuzah a mitzva? I have seen my sofer do this without making a bracha.  He does say something like L'shem mitzvos tefillin when he repairs a broken letter. 

  YL







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