[Avodah] birchat kohanim

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

> I thought that they blessed AM Yisrael, not the people in the minyan. 
> Therefore it would make no difference to you if you daven there or in 
> Monsey.

> Ben

The Am shebesadot iiuc doesn't include everyone-for example if one stood
in shul behind the cohanim, they are not included.

[Email #2. -micha]

>> On 06/23/2016 07:45 Does it turn on the machloket as to whether
>> the mitzvah is on the cohanim alone?

> Which machlokes?  Who holds that there is a mitzvah to be blessed?

> Zev

The Haflaah among others.
Listen here:   http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/858947
Rabbi Ezra Schwartz-Duchening for non kohanim

Kol tuv
Joel Rich