- Q. Kvod Horav Shlit”a. Can one blowing the shofar or making Kiddush on Rosh Hashana second day comply with the questionable brocho of Shecheyanu, by having in mind while reciting the brocho a new piece of clothing that a listening friend is wearing, but not he himself?
A. Although we often recite the brocho of Shecheyanu for others also, as we do in the Kiddush of Yom Tov or the reading of the Purim Megila etc.,in principle one does not recite Shecheyanu unless he also has to do so for his own obligation and not just only for someone else in need of saying that blessing. In the case above, the one wearing a new piece of clothing, is the one only that has to recite that blessing.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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