Why the B’rakhot? “Our sages regarded it as their duty not only to call us from the turmoil of life to a gathering to God, but to approach us in life itself, in order to make vivid for us the thought of God in life, and to help us towards an active life in the service of God. They fulfilled this task by means of the b’rakhot which they offered us” (Hirsch 521). Thus the pronouncing of a b’rakhah is also an act of submission, of dedication. Hirsch further stated, In all forms of the berachoth,
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