[Avodah] sfira bracha

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 05:44:46AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> Given that the kahal says the bracha for sfira/hallel after the
> shatz/rabbi, does your kahal answer Baruch hu Baruch shmo to the
> shatz/rabbi's bracha?

The qehillah, no.

But RYBS would say these berakhos with the chazan. Hiw problem is that if
mitzvos einum tzerichos kavvanah one would fulfill the berakhah by hearing
the chazan. It would take the conscious intent "I don't want to be yotzei"
to allow repeating the berakhah after him. And it seems wrong to think
"I do not want to do a mitzvah." So, without that intent not to, you
are left in an unresolved machloqes whether or not to repeat the berakhah.

One doesn't fulfill the berakhah according to both opinions if one speaks
in the middle, such as by saying Barukh Hu uVarukh Shemo, it seems to
me that saying it would be another way out of RYBS's problem.

So this is something I sometimes do.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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