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==General requirements==
==General requirements==
# Even though there’s always a mitzvah to answer the Bracha of a fellow Jew, there’s an added reason a person should answer amen when one is listening to a Bracha in order to fulfill one’s obligation. <ref> Mishna Brurah 213:17, Mishna Brurah 8:15, See Vezot HaBracha pg 362 regarding whether answering Amen makes it like the person listening said the entire Bracha. </ref>
# Even though there’s always a mitzvah to answer the Bracha of a fellow Jew, there’s an added reason a person should answer amen when one is listening to a Bracha in order to fulfill one’s obligation. <ref> Mishna Brurah 213:17, Mishna Brurah 8:15, See Vezot HaBracha pg 362 regarding whether answering Amen makes it like the person listening said the entire Bracha. </ref>
# According to the Morrocan custom, even one who is fulfilling a mitzvah via shomea keoneh should answer Baruch Hu Uvaruch Shemo to the beracha being said. <ref> Kitzur S"A of Rav Rephael Baruch Toledano, Volume 1, Page 111 </ref>
# In order to fulfill one’s obligation the listener must hear the whole bracha starting from the word Baruch. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 213:19, Shaar HaTzion there mentions that if one didn’t hear some words which aren’t crucial one still fulfills the obligation by listening. (S”A 214:1 and Mishna Brurah 314:4 specify Baruch, either Hashem or Elokenu, Melech, and HaOlam and the conclusion as the crucial words). </ref> If one did miss part of the Bracha some say that one can fill in that part by saying those specific words. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha (pg 362) quoting Halichot Shlomo (Klali Brachot 11). </ref>
# In order to fulfill one’s obligation the listener must hear the whole bracha starting from the word Baruch. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 213:19, Shaar HaTzion there mentions that if one didn’t hear some words which aren’t crucial one still fulfills the obligation by listening. (S”A 214:1 and Mishna Brurah 314:4 specify Baruch, either Hashem or Elokenu, Melech, and HaOlam and the conclusion as the crucial words). </ref> If one did miss part of the Bracha some say that one can fill in that part by saying those specific words. <Ref>Vezot HaBracha (pg 362) quoting Halichot Shlomo (Klali Brachot 11). </ref>
# If one was talking while listening to a Bracha one hasn’t fulfilled one’s obligation. <ref> Mishna Brurah 167:45. Vezot HaBracha pg 361 writes that it’s possible that the Chazon Ish 141:7 who’s explanation of Shomea KeOneh is that the listener joins the Bracha by actively listening would disagree. </ref>
# If one was talking while listening to a Bracha one hasn’t fulfilled one’s obligation. <ref> Mishna Brurah 167:45. Vezot HaBracha pg 361 writes that it’s possible that the Chazon Ish 141:7 who’s explanation of Shomea KeOneh is that the listener joins the Bracha by actively listening would disagree. </ref>