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Summer solstice- Opportunity for Beracha to be said.

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Tag-MehirTzedek:

--- Quote from: edu on June 19, 2012, 02:11:17 AM ---Because one is not supposed to make a blessing which is not required, the poskim generally frown upon innovating new blessings that were not practiced by previous generations, especially when the proposal to say the blessing is based on conjecture and not clear proof.

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 Its an observable reality. Check the link especially the first part with #8 and #9

edu:
In the article at
http://machonshilo.org/en/images/stories/files/Birkath-Hama-Response-02.pdf
that Tag-MehirTzedek
and Kahane-Was-Right BT
are referring to, Rabbi Bar-Hayim Shlitta in the first few points of the article offers a conjecture, that Rashi and Rambam mistakenly accepted a reading of the Gemara which portrays Abaye as supporting saying Bircat Hachama once every 28 years.
Although what Rabbi Bar-Hayim Shlitta, contended might be right, he might also be wrong.
It's too risky in my opinion to change custom based on conjecture.

In addition, if I did enough research, I could "dig up" a lot of blessings that some important Rabbi in the past thought we should say, but it is not the accepted custom. So even if the great Rabenu Bahye (I'm using the spelling of the article) did support saying a blessing at the solstice, this is not enough in my opinion to break with the accepted custom.

edu:
Kahane-Was-Right BT
was wondering why I brought up the issue of the Sages knowledge of astronomy.
Answer, because, in the article of Rabbi Bar-Hayim and the other expert he quotes, he tries to prove what was in the mind of the Sages, when they, enacted the blessings over various astronomical events, based on the scientific reallity that we know today with the help of telescopes, satellites and computers.
But this assumes that they had the same understanding of astronomy then, that we have today, which is not the case.
So in order to know what exactly was enacted by the sages, you have to go back into the mindset of what the Sages believed in the distant past and ignore the scientific findings of today.
Unless, you want to claim that the Sages, built in to their requirement to say blessings over certain events of astronomy, the option for later generations to adjust their enactments, if proof is brought that they were wrong. I don't think that this was the case, but I am open to changing my opinion if you could bring sufficient proof.

Tag-MehirTzedek:

Kahane-Was-Right BT:

--- Quote from: edu on June 19, 2012, 03:38:38 PM ---In the article at
http://machonshilo.org/en/images/stories/files/Birkath-Hama-Response-02.pdf
that Tag-MehirTzedek
and Kahane-Was-Right BT
are referring to, Rabbi Bar-Hayim Shlitta in the first few points of the article offers a conjecture, that Rashi and Rambam mistakenly accepted a reading of the Gemara which portrays Abaye as supporting saying Bircat Hachama once every 28 years.
Although what Rabbi Bar-Hayim Shlitta, contended might be right, he might also be wrong.
It's too risky in my opinion to change custom based on conjecture.

In addition, if I did enough research, I could "dig up" a lot of blessings that some important Rabbi in the past thought we should say, but it is not the accepted custom. So even if the great Rabenu Bahye (I'm using the spelling of the article) did support saying a blessing at the solstice, this is not enough in my opinion to break with the accepted custom.

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I don't believe Rabenu Bahye invented the bracha, and you also know that is not the case, yet it seems as if your comment is giving that impression.

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