- Q. Kvodo Shlit”a. I make a great effort to recite a hundred Brachot (Blessings) every day. Since I’m due for a urgent medical operation and I will be spending from the afternoon onward, time in hospital, Do the ones said in the Shemone Esre in shul in the morning or the Amen one answers for the Brachot of others also count?
A. Indeed, as mentioned in Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 46: 3) , based on the Talmud (Menachot 43b) one has an obligation to recite a hundred Brachot (Blessings) every day.
Mishna Berura (ibid.), Magen Avrohom and others maintain that in need one can comply by listening and answering amen to the brochos recited in Shul during the repetition of the Amida and other parts of the Tefila and also by the blessings of others.
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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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