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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>R’ MGR:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since it is not the risk that determines HaGomel, any risk is intolerable if the activity is beyond the range of what is deemed normal. So the fact that many people would be scared to climb the upper scaffolding of the Sydney Harbour Bridge notwithstanding their being tethered, crosses the Halachic barrier and prompts the Beracha of HaGomel.<o:p></o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in'>Those who live in Peru cross rope bridges as a regular event, it is well within what is deemed normal and they are not scared.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MYG:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One doesn’t either make Hagomel when one is scared; one makes it on the dangerous situations prescribed by Chazal, and those substantially similar to it. So the Sydney Harbour Bridge, while scary, is not at all dangerous (as the participants are tethered). Crossing a rope bridge in Peru, whether or not it is scary, is not dangerous, and one would not recite a HaGomel either. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>KT,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>MYG<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>