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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: Eli Turkel via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>>The sefer Piskei Teshuvot (siman
110-2) has a discussion whether one is<BR>required to say tefillat haderech in
modern times. He concludes that one<BR>who does not say it on major roads has
someone to rely on but someone who<BR>also says it has the reward of a tefilla
even though we no longer have<BR>"listin" and wild animals on the roads. Instead
we have a car accidents.<BR>Therefore one should also say tefillat haderech on
railroads and planes. He<BR>claims that on small side roads that everyone
paskens you need to say<BR>tefillat haderech<<<BR><BR>-- <BR>Eli
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<DIV>Saying tefillas haderech "on major roads" -- does that mean even within one
city, not just when traveling between cities?</DIV>
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<DIV>"On small side roads everyone paskens you need to say tefillas
haderech"? What does that mean? Every time I get in the car to go to
the grocery store in my own neighborhood? Or was the word "don't"
inadvertently omitted from that sentence ("you don't need to say tefillat
haderech")?</DIV>
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<DIV>I was driving someone to the cemetery for a levaya, we were on
the highway doing 60 and all of a sudden it started to rain, but I mean a mabul,
a hard, driving, blinding rain. I couldn't see at all in front of
me. Of course I slowed down, as did everyone else, but it was still very
frightening and certainly I couldn't just stop in the middle of the
highway. My passenger, a BT, became very agitated and said, "I only know
one perek of Tehillim by heart so I am going to say that." Then she
recited Shir Hamaalos (from benching) out loud. The rain stopped
immediately! A few miles further down the road, there was another sudden
blinding outburst and she said Shir Hamaalos again. Again the rain
immediately stopped. She was like a reverse Choni Hamaagel! I really
think her emunah peshuta saved the day!</DIV>
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<DIV>But to veer back into Avodah territory -- would it have been appropriate to
say Tefillas Haderech at that time? With shem umalchus? (I
assume you can always say it without shem umalchus.)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff>t613k@aol.com</FONT></STRONG><FONT lang=0
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