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Being Motzi someone with Tefilas Haderech
It is based on the difference between a tefillah and a bracha. The difference is that one can be yotzi when someone recites a bracha (as with hamotzi) but must recite a tefila personally (as with ...
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Teffilas Haderech Jerusalem to Beit Shemesh
Ashkenazim say tfilat haderech if traveling one parsa (4 kilometer) along a route empty of habitation. Sefardim say it when traveling 72 minutes.
It looks from knowing the route and Google Maps that ...
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Journey – overnight stay – return home. On return trip, when to say Tefilas Haderekh?
I think that your problem is one of translation:
וכ"ז בתחלת יציאתו מביתו אבל כשהוא לן בדרך יוכל לומר תה"ד בבוקר כשמכין
עצמו לצאת אפילו כשהוא עדיין בעיר דכבר החזיק בדרך
And all this (what ...
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If one travels the circumference of their Techum on Shabbos, do they say Tefilas HaDerech?
Tefilas HaDerech is said on Shabbos if one needs to travel (for example for childbirth, danger, etc.)
See here
הנוסע בשבת מפני הסכנה, או שמלוה חולה שיש בו סכנה, חייב לומר תפילת
הדרך.
However Ishei ...
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Is there a formal Jewish way of wishing someone a safe journey?
There is a minhag to give someone 'shlichus mitzva gelt' to give to tzedakka when they arrive in their destination. This comes from the chazal 'Shluchay mitzvah eino nezakin', someone who is a ...
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Does anyone say Tefillas Haderech when traveling by foot?
This dinonline.org article implies more "contemporary" rabbanim, namely Rav Shlomo Auerbach and Chazon Ish, who indicate that Tefillat Haderech should be recited even when travelling on foot, but ...
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How safe does 'travelling' need to be to revoke Tefillat HaDerech?
Seemingly because of a concern like yours, there are some poskim that say that you should only say the tefila in a case where you are nervous to travel.
From Halachipedia
According to some poskim, ...
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