<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">RET, RBW, and RMB have been discussing sfeik sfeika. For example, RET wrote</span></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">>>BTW it seems that ROY is much more willing to use sfek-sfeka to be mekil</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">>>than many other poskim (though I don't understand why others do not tend to</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">>>use it very much)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have a question on the MB regarding sfeik-sfeika l'chiyyuv bracha, and propose a very tentative answer.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">A good example of the use of sfeik-sfeika in the Mishna Brura is in hilchot sfirat ha-omer. The mechaber says that one who is in doubt </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">if he skipped a day can continue to count with a bracha. The Mishna Brura says that this is because there is a sfeik-sfeika </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">to require a bracha: maybe he didn't skip a day, and even if he did, maybe the halacha is not like the BeHag, and one should count with a bracha even if he skipped a day.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">OTOH, in hilchot brachot 215 MB ot 20, the MB quotes (apparently approvingly) the achronim (shaar hatziyyun cites the Chayei Adam , and perhaps the Pri Megadim agrees) who say that in birchot hapeirot, even if there is a sfeik-sfeika to require a bracha achrona, </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> - e</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">g. someone who ate a safek k'zayit amount of a biria: maybe he ate a k'zait, and even if he didn't, perhaps one needs to make a bracha achrona on a biria in any event -</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">one should *not* make a bracha.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">This is the opposite of what the MB wrote regarding sfirat ha-omer.</span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">True, one case is birkat hamitzvot and the other is birkat hapeirot, but the principle of regarding safek bracha (or sfeik skeika l'hayyev bracha) should be the same. </font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">R Asher Weiss has both written and said in shiur that although we are choshesh for the BeHag regarding sfira because of safek brachot l'hakel, nevertheless, </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">since the BeHag's position is rejected by almost all the rishonim, almost any additional safek l'chiyyuv is enough to allow one to continue to count with a bracha. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">If we accept this idea, we may understand that sfirat haomer may not be a typical case, and in other areas, a sfeik sfeika l'chiyyuv may *not* be enough to require a bracha. </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Saul Mashbaum </span></div>
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