<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 22px;" class="">Shulchan Aruch (OC 227:1) lists many natural events </i></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 22px;" class="">for which the bracha of 'Oseh Ma'aseh Breishis' ('He performs the acts of creation') is recited, </i></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 22px;" class="">such as lightening, thunder and great winds. However, an eclipse is not included in this list. </i></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 22px;" class="">It therefore may be presumed that a blessing is not recited. Why should this be? </i></div><div class=""><i style="font-size: 22px;" class="">Isn't an eclipse an incredible and awe inspiring event, as much so as thunder and lightning?</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">Something doesn’t add up. Every 28 years around April 8th, we recite the birkat hachama (last time, April 8th 2009,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">next time, April 8th 20037). Every month we recite the blessing over the moon. And as I learned, the “<i class="">oseh ma’aseh b’reshis</i>”</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">is over lightening but not over thunder and volcanoes. For thunder and volcanoes I thought we say “<i class="">shekocho g’vuroso malei olam</i>.”</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">Regarding an eclipse as an incredible and awe inspiring event, so is being in the presence of a child being born or in the presence</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">of a person having being declared dead, resuscitated back to life. Is there a b’rocho for that?</span></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">“If you live for people’s acceptance, you will<br class="">die from their rejection.” <br class="">Anonymous</blockquote></div>
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