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# One should be very careful to say Birchot HaTorah before learning.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch 47:1</ref> The brachot should be said with great [[Simcha]] (happiness) for being fortunate enough to be chosen and be privileged with the Torah. <ref>Mishna Brurah 47:4 </ref> | # One should be very careful to say Birchot HaTorah before learning.<Ref>Shulchan Aruch 47:1</ref> The brachot should be said with great [[Simcha]] (happiness) for being fortunate enough to be chosen and be privileged with the Torah. <ref>Mishna Brurah 47:4 </ref> | ||
# Before one learns Torah one must recite the Birchot HaTorah <ref> Ramban in Sefer HaMitzvot of the Rambam adds Birkat HaTorah as a Mitzvah Deoraita based on Gemara Brachot which learns these brachot from the pasuk ''“Ki Shem Hashem Ekrah Havu Godel LeElokenu"''. See Ramban there and Minchat Chinuch 430:5 who classify these brachot as brachot of praise. Because of the dispute in the rishonim as to whether these brachot are Deoraita or Derabanan the rule of [[Safek Brachot LeHakel]] still applies. </ref> | # Before one learns Torah one must recite the Birchot HaTorah <ref> Ramban in Sefer HaMitzvot of the Rambam adds Birkat HaTorah as a Mitzvah Deoraita based on Gemara Brachot which learns these brachot from the pasuk ''“Ki Shem Hashem Ekrah Havu Godel LeElokenu"''. See Ramban there and Minchat Chinuch 430:5 who classify these brachot as brachot of praise. Because of the dispute in the rishonim as to whether these brachot are Deoraita or Derabanan the rule of [[Safek Brachot LeHakel]] still applies. </ref> | ||
# There is a dispute whether it is forbidden to learn Torah without brachot hatorah when one can't otherwise recite brachot.<ref>Rav Nevinsal in Mishna Brurah 47:28 quotes Rav Shlomo Zalman and Chazon Ish who held that it is permitted to learn when one can't recite the brachot because of safek brachot lehakel. See Minchat Shlomo 91:1 s.v. agav.</ref> | |||
==The Text of the Brachot== | ==The Text of the Brachot== | ||
