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==What Kind of Trip Requires Tefillat HaDerech?== | ==What Kind of Trip Requires Tefillat HaDerech?== | ||
# <div id="forwhichtrips"></div> According to some poskim, one should recite Tefillat HaDerech only if one is nervous about the trip. <Ref>R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R' Hershel Schachter in [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)]. </ref> Other poskim maintain that one should recite it regardless of whether one is nervous. <Ref>R' Yaakov Kamenetsky, quoted by Rabbi Schachter [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)] </ref> | # <div id="forwhichtrips"></div> According to some poskim, one should recite Tefillat HaDerech only if one is nervous about the trip. <Ref>R' Joseph B. Soloveitchik, R' Hershel Schachter in [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)]. </ref> Other poskim maintain that one should recite it regardless of whether one is nervous. <Ref>R' Yaakov Kamenetsky, quoted by Rabbi Schachter [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/799793/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Daily_Halacha_Chabura_#21 Daily Halacha Chabura #21 (5:25)] </ref> | ||
#Ashkenazim hold that when one travels a distance of 8000 [[Amot]] from one city to another city, one recites Tefillat HaDerech only if there is no city within 16,000 [[Amot]] along the path one is traveling. If there is a continuous line of cities along the way within 16,000 [[Amot]] from the city where one departed one should say Tefillat HaDerech without reciting Hashem’s name in the bracha. <Ref>Beiur Halacha 110:7 s.v. VeEin says that if there is a city with 8000 [[Amot]] along the way one should not say Tefillat HaDerech. Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 21:7) writes that one is only obligated in Tefillat HaDerech if one travels in an area in which there is no city for 16,000 [[Amot]]. He adds that we calculate the trip by distance and not time. Tefillah KeHilchata 27:26 rules that in order to make the bracha at the conclusion it must be a trip the distance of 4.7 km (based on the Chazon Ish’s measure of the [[Amah]]). </ref> | #Ashkenazim hold that when one travels a distance of 8000 [[Amot]] from one city to another city, one recites Tefillat HaDerech only if there is no city within 16,000 [[Amot]] along the path one is traveling. If there is a continuous line of cities along the way within 16,000 [[Amot]] from the city where one departed one should say Tefillat HaDerech without reciting Hashem’s name in the bracha. <Ref>Beiur Halacha 110:7 s.v. VeEin says that if there is a city with 8000 [[Amot]] along the way one should not say Tefillat HaDerech. Halichot Shlomo ([[Tefillah]] 21:7) writes that one is only obligated in Tefillat HaDerech if one travels in an area in which there is no city for 16,000 [[Amot]]. He adds that we calculate the trip by distance and not time. Tefillah KeHilchata 27:26 rules that in order to make the bracha at the conclusion it must be a trip the distance of 4.7 km (based on the Chazon Ish’s measure of the [[Amah]]).</ref> Some disagree that one should recite the bracha as long as the destination one travels is more than 16000 amot.<ref>Shevet Halevi 10:21:1</ref> | ||
## The distance is measured according to the distance it takes to travel the roads even if the road is not straight and not according to the shortest most direct line. <Ref>Eshel Avraham MeButchach 110, Tehillat LeDavid 110:4, Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah, chap 21, note 7, pg 253), Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 </ref> | ## The distance is measured according to the distance it takes to travel the roads even if the road is not straight and not according to the shortest most direct line. <Ref>Eshel Avraham MeButchach 110, Tehillat LeDavid 110:4, Halichot Shlomo (Tefillah, chap 21, note 7, pg 253), Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 </ref> | ||
# Sephardim hold that if one travels in a car, train, boat, airplane or any other mode of transportation if one travels 72 minutes from one city to another city then one says Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 based on Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13, 6:48(9) </ref> | # Sephardim hold that if one travels in a car, train, boat, airplane or any other mode of transportation if one travels 72 minutes from one city to another city then one says Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 based on Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13, 6:48(9) </ref> | ||
## The distance is only counted between one city and the other. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 </ref> | ## The distance is only counted between one city and the other. <Ref>Halacha Brurah 110:16 </ref> | ||
## Even if there are cities or pit stops along the way, the Sephardic minhag is to say Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef ([[Tefilla]] vol 2, 110:2, pg 3) </ref> | ## Even if there are cities or pit stops along the way, the Sephardic minhag is to say Tefillat HaDerech. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef ([[Tefilla]] vol 2, 110:2, pg 3) </ref> | ||
==Distance Traveled== | ==Distance Traveled== | ||
# According to Ashkenazim as long as the distance traveled is 3.84 kilometers then one should make the bracha, however, according to Sephardim one should only make it for a travel of 72 minutes. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 writes that according to Rav Chaim Noeh the measurement is 3.84 km and according to the Chazon Ish 4.6km. Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13 writes that Sephardim follow the time it takes to walk a [[mil]] which is established to be 72 minutes. </ref> | # According to Ashkenazim as long as the distance traveled is 3.84 kilometers then one should make the bracha, however, according to Sephardim one should only make it for a travel of 72 minutes. <Ref>Piskei Teshuvot 110:8 writes that according to Rav Chaim Noeh the measurement is 3.84 km and according to the Chazon Ish 4.6km. Sh”t Yabia Omer 1:13 writes that Sephardim follow the time it takes to walk a [[mil]] which is established to be 72 minutes. </ref> | ||
