Blessing the New Moon
- halakha
- b'rakhoth
- birkath halevana
When should you bless the new moon? Rav Bar Hayyim dissects the arguments. Here, the Shulhan Aruch does not follow his own method for deciding halacha. A line-by-line explanation of the blessing of the new moon. The difference between the bracha in Eress Yisrael and Babylonia. Do women say the bracha? Does a blind person?