[Avodah] tfilat haderech and birchat hagomel

[Rich, Joel]

I don't think tfilas haderech depends on the perception of danger; one
says it whenever one travels out of ones city, and not (at least not with
shem and malchus) if one drives all day on dangerous roads within the city.
Hagomel OTOH is said for the four statutory occasions (though for some
reason deserts seem to have dropped out), even if there was no perception
of danger, but *also* in any situation where there was a real danger.

-- 
Zev Sero         
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OTOH IIRC  R' HShachter ( Nefesh Harav) says that R'YB Sdid not say tfilat haderech from Boston to NY because of it being a tfila bet tzara since the gemara mentions tfilat haderech right after
it says someone  who is in a dangerous place says a tfila- and today there is no feeling of  danger.
KT
Joel Rich 

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