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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Re: </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Has anyone seen anything on
a preference for a tzibbur to be yotzeh with shomeiah koneh/amen versus each
individual saying the bracha on their own?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>See the tosefta brachot, Lieberman ed. chapter, 6, halakha
15, p. 37, lines 68 ff. (I use this one as it’s the one in the responsa
project and the easiest to locate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The issue there is birchot hamitzva, with the tanna
giving preference to one saying the birchat hamitzva for many individuals doing
one mitzvah. This is the custom of the Yemenites in sefirat ha’omer,
the chazzan or rabbi makes the birchat hamitzva for all of the congregation and
they answer amen and then count for themselves (in contra to the psak of the
mishna brurah).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>This is what you do with the mitzvah of shmi’at
kol shofar. The ba’al tokea makes the bracha and you all answer amen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Does it work for birchot hashevach?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Well the Rambam’s shita in proreis al hashmah
is that the chazzan says the birchot kriyat shma, and he is motzei the
congregation even when they answer amen, and this is bezibbur (hil. Tefila,
8:5; 9:1; 9:9).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>A friend ask a poseik if his kids said Kiddush by
themselves on Friday nite for chinuch, when they became bar mitvah should they
stop and be yotzei with the father or continue to make their own? The poseik
answered, if you want to be mechanech your kids, then teach them the din of the
tosefta, which is the din of the tannaim and no one is cholek.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Pesach sameiach vekasher.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>shlomo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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