[Avodah] tefillat haderech

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

In my original post I was too short. Therefore I will expand a little about
tefillat haderech and my question

1) Rashi holds that tefillat haderech (THD) is requesting permission from
Hashem and so can only be said within the first parsah. Bahag holds that
THD is asking for protection and so can be said anytime up to a parsah
before the end of the trip. Rosh and SA pasken like Behag.

Rambam doesn't mention THD and meforshim try and explain why

2) Ashkenazim measure parsah as a distance (about 4km) even when using a
car or plane. ROY translated parsah to a time of 72 minutes.

3) Kolbo says that one says THD only once a day even if one made a stop
during the day (quoted in SA). Hence, MB says that if one is touring and
stops every night in a hotel one says THD every morning with a
bracha. Yalkut Yosef says that if one travels 40 minutes going to work and
40 minutes back they don't combine and one says THS without a bracha

4) Radvaz talks about an extended trip and says that even if one is not
stopping in a "yishuv" and if if one is travelling all night he says THD
every day but a bracha only on the first day.

Pri Chadash disagrees says that one says THD only on the first day even if
it is an extended trip

MB says that if one makes a short stop then one should say THD the next
morning without a bracha

5) As an aside RSZA paskens that one does not say THD traveling from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem as there are cities all along the way. Yalkut Yosef
disagrees.
RSZA also says that on a plane one should say THD shortly after the plane
leaves the ground

My question concerned travelling on a boat either several day journey
without stops across the Atlantic or else a cruise with many stops in ports.

According to the Pri Chadash one certainly doesn't say THD after the first
day. However, even according to the Radvaz one might argue that there is no
need to say THD after the first day since one always stays on the boat day
and night and it is different than a caravan.
Of course one can always say THD without a bracha but the question is
whether one needs to. I have no surveys but in my limited experience people
do not say THD every day on a cruise even without a bracha


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Eli Turkel
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