Berachah on Judicial Mitzvos and Birkas Eirusin

Date: 1 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan 5593

From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer

To: Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch

Description

The Chasam Sofer addresses why no berachah is recited on performing justice, appointing judges, or writing a Sefer Torah, engaging with the Yerushalmi, Rashba, and Pri Megadim. He explains that inherent uncertainty in human judgment precludes a berachah, reinterprets the Yerushalmi as describing a blanket berachah over multiple communal mitzvos, and offers a profound explanation of the eirusin blessing's formulation 'al ha-arayos.'

Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer OC §54

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