[Avodah] birchat kohanim

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:45:34AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: How would you analyze the amount of "bother" you should go to in Eretz
: Yisrael to attend a minyan where there are kohanim in order to get
: birchat hakohanim? Differentiate between the mitzvah and the benefit of
: the bracha. Does it turn on the machloket as to whether the mitzvah is
: on the cohanim alone?

If duchaning really is a mitzvah, how can benei chu"l have a minhag to
skip it?

A derabbanan can certainly call for a bitul asei, especially besheiv
ve'al ta'aseh. But a minhag?


I also don't know if one can differentiate between mitzvos and the benefit
of the cheftzah shel mitzvah. But I don't have anything to add to the
"does a mezuzah protect beyond the sekhar of protection of the mitzvah
of mezuzah?" thread beyond noting its potential relevance here.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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