Saturday, July 17, 2010

Birkat haGomel for airplane flights

Hello,

The issue of reciting Birkat haGomel for air travel is somewhat controversial; here are three contemporary views:

Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yechaveh Daat 2:26) - Air travel requires Birkat haGomel for trips of more than 72 minutes.

Rav Eliezer Waldenberg (Tzitz Eliezer 11:14) - Air travel requires Birkat haGomel for trips over bodies of water or over an unsettled area, but not from city to city within a single country, if the trips lasts only an hour or two.

Rav Yitzchak Weiss (Minchat Yitzchak 4:47) - One does not recite Birkat haGomel, because the berachah is intended only for dangers which people do not take on willingly.

May we soon see the rebuilding of the Beit haMikdash,
Mordechai

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