[Avodah] fruit tree

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 01:26:21PM -0700, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
: question--- if you are seeing the flowers daily but not making the bracha,
: you can defer it till later ie you were not yotze by seeing a blossom; or
: like lightning, make the bracha now or not at all...

Wouldn't the question be whether you hold that the berakhah cannot
be made before Nissan, or that the berakhah should ideally be made in
Nissan? If the former, then seeing the bloom on a fruit tree before
Nissan is not encountering the situation that requires a berakhah.

The Har Zvi (OC 118) says that if in your country tree bloom before
Nissan, you can say the berakhah then. He also says that since the time is
not strictly the cause of the mitzvah, it is NOT a mitzvas asei shehazman
gerama, and women are as encoutraged to say it as men.

Along those lines, maybe you can deduce from the Kaf haChaim's resport
(OC 226:7-8) that Sephardios are nohagos to say this berakhah that it's
not specifically tied to Nissan.

The AhS (OC 226:1) says that if in your country (like his), blooming
tends to be later, the appropriate time would be Iyar or Sivan. It is
not mucharach that he would say the same about Adar, but it seems likely
to me.

So it seems to me, zerizim maqdimin -- don't wait for Nissan!

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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