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face=Arial>From: Simon Montagu via Avodah <A
href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>>>Of course<BR>not everybody says sheheheyanu on Atzma`ut, not
even everybody who says<BR>Hallel, but plenty do, and I heard in the name of Rav
Goren in a shiur this<BR>week: "You say sheheyanu on a shirt and you don't say
it on the medina?"<BR><BR>But the logic doesn't work, or rather only worked in
1948: nobody says<BR>sheheheyanu on the shirt's
anniversary....<<</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Saying shehecheyanu on the Medinah -- and even more so, saying shehecheyanu
on the anniversary of the medina -- is not analogous to wearing a new
shirt. It's more analogous to the day you give the raw material to a
tailor to start making you a new shirt, and plus the material has some
shatnez along the edges which the tailor is going to have to remove before he
can finish making the shirt. You can start memorizing the bracha in
anticipation of the day the shirt is finally finished, but don't make the bracha
prematurely.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT><BR><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>--Toby
Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</STRONG></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#ffffff size=2
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