7

Can you stop benching (saying the grace after a meal) after al-yichasiranu (the end of the fourth blessing of the grace)?

Improve this question
0

3 Answers 3

Reset to default
5

The mechaber brings "harahaman"s as an optional addition to Bircas HaMazone. Today the general Ashkenazic Minhag is to say it all unless you have one of the following two minhagim:

  1. The GRA holds that on Shabbos one should stop before the personal requests (yifarnisanu bchavod).
  2. In Slobodka Yeshivah (hence in Chaim Berlin) the custom was to stop at Al Yihasireinu so as to gain a few more minutes for learning Torah. Those who still have this custom either descend from those who learned/taught there or picked it up in Yeshivah.
Improve this answer
3
  • Students of Rabbi Chait's Yeshiva stop at the al yechasireinu on Shabbos, for the reason mentioned above. Not being one, I'm not sure what they do the rest of the week.
    – Ariel
    Commented Jun 11, 2010 at 15:52
  • 1
    Which Rabbi Chait? And why at "Al Yihasireinu" if the first few Harahamans are not personal requests?
    – Yahu
    Commented Jun 14, 2010 at 20:12
  • I know the GR"A held you can't say them on Shabbath, but I also heard it said that he didn't say them at all, and for the reason mentioned in 2. Could this be true, or was my source confused about where that tradition originated?
    – Seth J
    Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 2:44
1

I believe there is also a source [help please!] that says, while on your employer's time, you should only say the first four berachot. this could be extended to other situations where time or kavana are limited.

Improve this answer
1
  • See Shulchan Aruch OC Siman 191
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Dec 20, 2011 at 0:15
0

It depends on your minhag. Some do, some don't.

Improve this answer
2
  • 1
    cHAIM bERLINERS
    – SimchasTorah
    Commented Apr 15, 2010 at 2:53
  • 2
    I guess this about as a good an answer as the question was.
    – Seth J
    Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 2:40

You must log in to answer this question.