Q&A – Leaving Israel, Disagreement With a Rabbi (Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb)

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the works of great men communicate. [laughter] >> Okay, [snorts] it's up. Okay, this is Q&A. So, the floor is open. >> Yeah, >> my question is from when you talked about some stuff last month. Um, you were talking about the uniqueness of water. Why is there no special water? Um that's a very interesting question. I also uh thought of that but I came at it a different direction. There's no unique blessing for water. There is one catchall blessing and it's blessing which covers many different categories. Unique blessings are vocabulary picks out a particular category which has special significance. Now the blessing that we make on the miscellaneous is and now there are two different versions depending upon which tense you use. Everything gets its existence through his word. That's pretty high. That's pretty exalted. Uh someone once asked me why don't we use that blessing for one of the unique ones you know um Bori Priyagen he made the fruit of the vine created the fruit of the vine okay but everything has its being through his word I mean isn't that like so I saw one commentary say it's sort of like compensation the food isn't special but you give it the certain sense the most august blessing to to understand that alo it doesn't show itself in any specific mitzvah to be done that's not necessary for a certain type of accomplishment but accord invests in that the being that it has and we should we should respect it

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