<div dir="ltr">I guess I was a little too succinct in my last post.<div>The major problem is that many consider tefillat haderech as a tefillah and not as a bracha. Thus while one can be motze other for a bracha one cannot do it for a tefillah.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence, R Nebenzahl paskens that all those that know how to say by themselves should do so</div><div>R C Kanevsky says it is preferable for each person to say by themself</div><div>R Tuvia Goldstein says that one cannot be yotzeh someone else and claims that he convinced RMF of that</div><div>R Belsky repeats that it is a tefillah and not a bracha and so it is appropriate (min ha-raui) that everyone says it for themself.</div><div>R Aviner says that it is "rachamim" and therefore it is preferable that each one requests for themselves however bidieved one can be motzi others </div><div><br></div><div>The sefer Piskei Teshuvot (siman 110-2) has a discussion whether one is required to say tefillat haderech in modern times. He concludes that one who does not say it on major roads has someone to rely on but someone who also says it has the reward of a tefilla even though we no longer have "listin" and wild animals on the roads. Instead we have a car accidents. Therefore one should also say tefillat haderech on railroads and planes. He claims that on small side roads that everyone paskens you need to say tefillat haderech</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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