Wednesday, April 8, 2009

BIRKAT HACHAMAH

5:30 In the morning, I didn't think I would be up this early today, cant even see a ray of sunshine to say that birkat hachamah. The thing about the blessing of the sun, which I am waiting for now, is that all you have to say is one simple brachah; and yet, every pamphlet I got in the mail, or found from Chabad, or Oorah had something they always stretch it out, and none of them have the same way to stretch it out with. For example, in one says a halelukah first, and the other has some sort of Tehillim, or another has what the sun would say to Hashem from perek shirah; its not consistent, why they trying to put on us new minhagim? 28 years later you'll probably do it different, because you'll have a different pamphlet anyway. (beginning to see some light outside).

Sorry I don't know too much about why we say it every 28 years, something about the sun in a 364 plus 6 hour cycle messes it up every year, but I'm pretty sure you can google it.

Well I think people shouldn't get so worked up about saying it, Chabad in Philadelphia is going to say it from the Franklin Institute observatory (kinda cool), but its only one Brachah.

3 people gave their 2 cents:

Ookamikun said...

Babysitting, so printed it out and said it myself. The order I used was same on another site and similar to wiki.
Birkas Hachama PDF.

Talmudist said...

Too bad it was cloudy out when I said it :(.

Mikeinmidwood said...

Moshe

I seen some a few pages long.

Talmudist

Thats ashame, but for me sunrise was the time, beautiful.