[Avodah] Birchas Kohanim

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 06/26/2016 11:51 AM, elazar teitz wrote:
> In the cases of megilla and shofar, hearing is required; a deaf
> person is exempt, and one who is prevented from hearing because of
> noise is not yotze. For birkas kohanim, according to the Sefer
> Chareidim, I doubt that there is any requirement other than the
> blessee's presence and awareness that the bracha is being given.

Good distinction.  Even awareness is presumably not necessary, since we
bring babies to be blessed.  But is this distinction really relevant to
the question of whether to make a bracha?   Where do we see that a bracha
depends on a chiyuv to hear rather than merely to be present?

Further question: is a bracha said on attending hakhel?


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