- Q. As in other years, our fruit trees start already budding during these days. Since we have guests that we invite for Friday night and they don’t usually have access to proper budding trees, can they recite the bracha at night?
A. On question 2173, we wrote Q. Can you make birchat ha’ilanot by the light of the moon, if you can see the trees clearly?
A. On question 1716 regarding the blessing for the new fruits on the trees at night, when there is light, we wrote: “Although Horav T. P, Frank zt”l (quoted in Yain Hatov 1: 48) rules that birchas ha”ilanos should not be recited at night, many Poskim permit when needed and there is enough light to see clearly the budding in the fruit trees. (Tzitz Eliezer O.H. 1: 118 – 12: 20, Porach Mateh Aharon p. 163, Birchas Yosef 121: 3, Maadanei Daniel 226: 5, Rivavos Efraim (O.H. 6: 458, et. al.)
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is similar.” The Rov added that the same applies to the light of the moon
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Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a. August 23, 2019
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