[Avodah] Boreh Minei Bessamim: Stop And Smell The Flowers

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From: Isaac Balbin _Isaac.Balbin at rmit.edu.au_ 
(mailto:Isaac.Balbin at rmit.edu.au) 



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


I'm not sure I understand. Isn't it a  Birchas HaNehenin (unlike Me'orey 
H'oeish which is Shvach)
Are you implying  that there is only Hano-oh if it has a nice smell but if 
that
smell also  makes me feel better I don't have Hano-oh?

 
>>>>>
Smelling salts revive you on a fast day but I don't think most people would 
 make a borei minei besamim on smelling salts.  And what about sniffing  
Vicks-infused steam or one of those menthol-scented tubes for a  stuffed nose? 
 Maybe some people would make a bracha but I don't see  it.
 

--Toby  Katz
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