[Avodah] ..v'imru amen

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 07/10/2015 04:27 PM, Kenneth Miller via Avodah wrote:
>> >Not really, because it's supposed to be said aloud by one person,
>> >with the others only answering amen.   It's only relatively
>> >recently that we've started each benching for ourselves, even
>> >when there's a zimun.

> But we've*always*  benched as individuals when there*isn't*  a zimun.

Benching is designed for a zimun.   It's normal to eat in a group.  But even
when there were only two eating, or when a family ate together, I think the
usual thing was for one person to bench and the other person (or the wife
and children) to listen and say amen.

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