[Avodah] Boreh Minei Bessamim: Stop And Smell The Flowers -- The Scent Really Can Soothe Stress

[Micha Berger]

This raises a question for me...

Do we shift all the questions of okhel vs refu'ah to scents as well?
If someone smells something only for refgu'ah, does he make a
berakhah?

As for giving flowers before Shabbos, I always thought the iqqar
was the pe'ulah, not the chetzah. To relate to this week's parashah
(archive readers: it's Vayiqra), Rachmanah liba ba'i. The essence
of a qorban is the emotion expressed in and reinforced by giving it,
not the animal.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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