When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?
Title: Amen over the Telephone
Author: False == 1 ? Anonymous : Shayna Michaels
#44;
When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?
I would like to make one correction: in this shiur it says that Rav Ovadia Yosef holds that you can use a microphone for shomeia keoneh. However, in יחוה דעת חלק ג סימן נד he says explicitly that you're not yotzei (unless you can hear even without the microphone). The tshuva quoted (יביע אומר חלק ז אורח חיים סימן יח) was about hearing aids ("מכונת שמיעה חשמלית"), which Rav Ovadia compares to false teeth and glasses.
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Author: False == 1 ? Anonymous : Shayna Michaels #44;
When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?
Author: False == 1 ? Anonymous : Shayna Michaels #44;
When parents give a bracha before Shabbos to children over the telephone, can a child say amen? Is that bracha really considered a bracha or is it in a different category like when people give "brachos" at the end of a phonecall? Does it matter which category it's in for saying amen over the telephone?
Author: False == 1 ? Anonymous : Moshe Greenberg #44;
I would like to make one correction: in this shiur it says that Rav Ovadia Yosef holds that you can use a microphone for shomeia keoneh. However, in יחוה דעת חלק ג סימן נד he says explicitly that you're not yotzei (unless you can hear even without the microphone). The tshuva quoted (יביע אומר חלק ז אורח חיים סימן יח) was about hearing aids ("מכונת שמיעה חשמלית"), which Rav Ovadia compares to false teeth and glasses.