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Because in theory you could have said Shehecheyanu when you prepared (bound) your lulav before Sukkos. So even supposing that the second day of Sukkos was the real Yom Tov (and the previous day was actually erev Sukkos), your Shehecheyanu then would still count as the real thing. (By contrast, with kiddush, you're saying the berachah because of the holiday ...
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The Levush (489, end of 1) writes: 1) It's part of Yom Tov so it's included in the Shehecheyanu of Yom Tov, 2) Since Sefira was in anticipation for Matan Torah which is the main Simcha, it doesn't make sense to say Shehecheyanu on something we are anticipating for before that day arrives!
The Ba'er Heitev (5) brings that the reason is that Shehecheyonu is ...
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Sefardim make a Shecheyanu at a bris. This is also the prevailing custom among Ashkenazim (and everyone else) in Israel.
Background:
Tosafot (Sukkah 46a, ד"ה העושה) says that we don't make a shecheyanu on a bris, since it is not mentioned as one of the berachot for milah in massechet Menachot. Reason - only make Shehecheyanu on a mitzvah that has simcha ...
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Shehechiyuanu is a brikat hashevach.
Now I have to explain to you how every instance of shehechiyanu is really recited after the occasion.
On seeing a friend after 30 days or hearing good news that benefits only myself (I include here one who heard of rain after a drought): I think we all agree these are after.
On acquiring new property: The shulchan ...
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Say it only during kiddush. The women too should only say it during kiddush. Why would one assume the two would be any different? They are both obligated in kiddush and both obligated to have the lights lit. The Talmud in Sukkah (47b) implies already that the shehechiyanu is said with the kiddush. (The Tur OC 519 deems it an "enactment of [the sages] to say ...
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Yes. Recite birkas shehechiyanu on the second night after the regular two b'rachos. The same goes for any subsequent night if it is the first time you are lighting this year. (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 676:1)
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It has been some time since I looked at the issue, but as I recall the practice is to not recite this blessing, at least not with shem u'malchus (mentioning G-d's name and kingship). This is, in my recollection, at least in part because the blessing was instituted when such journey's could mean that one's friend would not return alive and by seeing them you ...
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Rav Ovadia Yosef rules in Yechavveh Da'at 4:17 that one would not say a bracha upon seeing someone through video chat. However he does quote one opinion that even allows one to say it upon hearing their voice on the telephone but dismisses it as very unlikely AND because by matters of doubt with brachot we rule to not say the bracha. Depending on which one ...
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The proper order of these blessings is a machloket between Rav and Rabba bar bar Chana on Sukkah 56a. Rav held the blessing on the Sukkah comes first because it's the obligation of the day and Rabba bar bar Chana held that Shehechiyanu comes first because it is Tadir = said more often. The Rambam (Sukkah 6:2) rules like Rav and Shulchan Aruch does likewise ...
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The last בעל המאור on פסחים says that we can't make שהחיינו on ספירת העומר because the whole point of the count is to lead to the קרבן שתי הלחם, and being that we don't have the בית המקדש nowadays, counting is just ''אגמת נפש'' for us, and we don't make שהחיינו on things that cause us anguish.
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The Shulchan Aruch Harav (OC 600:5-7) explains that although some hold that the two days of Rosh Hashana are considered one day with regards to the brocha shechiyanu, the Halacha is not like them and therefore we make a second shechiyanu the second day by Kiddush and Shofar blowing. [However, we do try and take the opinion into concern and therefore have a ...
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Shehecheyanu applies to vegetables, too (not just fruits that grow in the ground).
Some examples for Israel, in no particular order:
spring garlic
watermelon
melons (the watermelon isn't a true melon)
kiwi
litchi
apricots
peaches, plums, nectarines
grapes
pomegranates
figs
cherries
mangoes
carobs
hawthorn berries
Even if you don't live in Israel, I'm ...
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The Magen Avraham says that if one did not have a m'gila one would not say birkas "shehechiyanu". This leads me to believe that if one had not read yet the halacha would be the same.
Rav Ya'akov Emden (in Mor Uk'tzi'a) challenges the premise, pointing out that we say the b'racha on Yom Kipur without an action necessarily associated with its recital, and ...
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The only reason we deliberately have new fruit or clothes is because we're saying it anyway on kidush or lighting: if you're (for whatever reason) not saying it on kidush or lighting, there's no reason to have new fruit or clothes. (Of course, if you do have new fruit or clothes, then you say shehecheyanu, same as on any weekday.)
Moreover, saying it at ...
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First night: say a leisheiv. Then say a shehechiyanu, as that is covering both the yomtov (shehechiyanu is part of the standard kiddush of the first 2 days of pesach and shavuos too), and the new experience of the mitzva of dwelling in the sukkah (just as you'd make a shehechiyanu the first time you take a lulav, but not subsequent times).
Second night: ...
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Two points:
1) We know the Mishna Berura is referring to Shehechiyanu because in the Sha'ar HaTziyun sk 3 he explicitly mentions the word "Shehechiyanu".
2) The Aruch HaShulchan (OC 225:2) explicitly differentiates like Rav Ovadiah Yosef:
וזהו כשלא היה מכתבים ממנו אליו, אבל כשקבל ממנו מכתב אינו מברך 'מחיה המתים', אבל לעניין 'שהחיינו' אין חילוק, דאפילו ...
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This is just my own logic:
Someone who builds or buys a house says shehecheyanu. It was also common to rent houses (long term as well), but the halacha did not extend to that case. So even though owning one's own house gives simcha, a limited usage doesn't qualify for the bracha.
Another interesting take on your question would be a life estate or term ...
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