{"id":283,"date":"2014-03-21T02:37:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:46:37","slug":"19-adar-ii-5774-32114-daf-46-eliezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"19 Adar II, 5774 (3\/21\/14) &#8211; Sukkah#46 {Eliezer}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gemarah<\/span> [46a top]: There is a <em>Machlokes<\/em> (argument) if one says <em>Bracha<\/em> (blessing)\u00a0of \u201c<em>Shehechiyanu<\/em>\u201d on building a <em>Sukkah<\/em> (a preparatory act for the later <em>Mitzvah<\/em> of being inside of it).<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tosephos<\/span>: There are some <em>mitzvos<\/em> (ie: <em>sukkah<\/em>, <em>lulav<\/em>) that we bless with \u201c<em>Shehechiyanu<\/em>\u201d and some (ie: <em>tzitzis<\/em>, <em>tefillin<\/em>, circumcision) that we do not.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rambam argues<\/span>: There is a bracha on <em>Meela<\/em> (circumcision) [and the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shulchan Orech<\/span> that people in Israel hold like, agrees with Rambam, but the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rama<\/span> (people outside israel) does not].<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R\u2019 Soloveitchik explains Rambam<\/span>: The blessing does not come before the <em>Meela<\/em> to demonstrate the blessing is for praise and thanks (once it has been done). Other blessings are for gaining permission to benefit from items (in which the blessing must be done before the act).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>E\u2019s Lesson<\/strong><\/span>: We must remember that when we make a blessing to eat food, we are asking permission to eat of something that is not really ours. We might think that we either grew it ourselves or \u201cearned\u201d the money to buy it. Recognize that everything is really from Hashem and we should always be thankful for what we have been given.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemarah [46a top]: There is a Machlokes (argument) if one says Bracha (blessing)\u00a0of \u201cShehechiyanu\u201d on building a Sukkah (a preparatory act for the later Mitzvah of being inside of it). Tosephos: There are some mitzvos (ie: sukkah, lulav) that we bless with \u201cShehechiyanu\u201d and some (ie: tzitzis, tefillin, circumcision) that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gemarah-sukkah","category-l4l-by-eliezer","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailydoseofdaf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}