[Avodah] Tefila Over Loudspeakers At a Big Gatherings

[Zev Sero]

On 4/11/2011 5:14 PM, Rich, Joel wrote:
>> If someone were standing outside the Alexandria synagogue
>> and through the window saw the flag waving, and thus knew that a bracha
>> had just been said,should he not answer amen?!

> Quite a few opinions on this - see mfarshim on sukkah 51b. Some say they
> knew which bracha was being said.

Even so, when you hear a bracha over a loudspeaker, telephone, radio, etc,
you know what bracha is being said too.  So why shouldn't you answer amen?
What do you gain by being part of the same tzibbur?

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