Q. Dear Rabbi. A true miracle happened to a cousin of mine. She was steeping out of a plane carrying her one month old baby and as she exited she tripped and fell with the baby in her hands. By a true Neiss (miracle) she fell backwards on her back and she didn’t roll down the long metal steps, and B’H both her and the baby are OK. Does she have to Bench (recite) Gomel? Her husband was not travelling with her.
A. The Ashkenazi tradition is that women don’t recite the blessing of HaGomel, that is usually done by men in Shul and in public at the reading of the Torah.
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that she should recite with lots of of Kavanah and intention Chapter 107 of Tehilim. There are different traditions how to recite it in such an occasion.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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