[Avodah] tefillat haderech

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<I suspect that I do not appreciate or understand the meaning of "as a
tefillah and not as a bracha".>>

On many birtchot hamitzva one can be motzeh others even when they are
"experts". This includes shofar, megilla etc (not lulav or netillat yadaim
which is considered as a mitzvah be-gufo)
similarly for kiddush and havdala.

Note that for sefirat haomer  usually each person says the bracha
himself/herself and also
counts for themselves. There are opinions that if needed one can rely on
the chazzan for the bracha but not the count.

In birchat ha-nehenim usually each individual makes his own bracha.
There are some which are a mixture including kiddush and motzi on shabbat
on lechem mishne
(note there are various minhagim on seder night).
For birchat shevach eg lightning seeing great mountains etc each person
says it by himself.

OTOH the shliach tzibbur can be motzi others with shemone esre only if they
cant say it themselves.
Shemonei esrei is a tefillah (bakasha and shevach) even though shemonei
esrei consists of brachot.

The usual minhag is that each individual says birchat hagomel though I once
heard from R Zilberstein that if many people need to say it then it is
preferable for one person to be motzei everyone else

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I am not sure if I have made things clearer - if not I leave it to someone
else to explain exactly when one can be motze others lechatchila, bidieved
or not at all

-- 
Eli Turkel
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