– Q. Another tree question Dear Rabbi please. Is it better to wait until Shabbat to recite this blessing on the trees?
A. In regards to waiting until Shabbos on question 287, we wrote; Yalkut Yosef (Shabbos 3, 319,77) quotes some opinions that maintain that this bracha should not be recited on Shabbos either because by engaging one’s attention on the tree, one might come to collect some fruits (Moed L’kol Chai 9), or by dint of a Cabalistic injunction on gathering “nitzoitzois,” (spiritual sparks) from a tree on Shabbos (Kaf Hachaim 226, 4).
However, most Poiskim disagree, permit and recommend reciting this bracha on Shabbos. (Yalkut Yosef ibid. – Nitey Gavriel, Pesach I, 6,7).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit”a opinion is that you can and should wait until Shabbos, then avoid contemplating extensively the tree and recite the bracha together with a larger group “b’rov am” which will remind you or the children not to cut some fruits from the tree.
This brocho also reminds people of the blessings, great delightful feeling, flavors and natural life beauty that Hashem gives us and it is therefore included in the Biblical mitzva of Oneg Shabbos (enjoying Shabbos). It also adds to the count of the hundred brochos that are required on Shabbos.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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