0517 - Learning Halacha from the Rebbe's Actions Part 2 - Birkas Hagomel After Heart Attack

00:00 One of the things that we have to think about, whether we can learn out Halacha L'maase from a behavior of the Rebbe, is the fact that the Rebbe did not make the Bracha Hageimel after the heart attack. The din is if a person is sick, and there's a sakana to his life, so when he becomes completely healthy, as the Alter Rebbe says, yaazer leguf buriv legamri, he becomes back healthy as before, you have to make a geimel. Now, by the Rebbe, after the heart attack, he did not make a geimel. Now, we have to learn out from here, does that mean that the Rebbe holds that by a heart attack you don't make a geimel or not? Because there is a svora that by a heart attack you don't make a geimel because whatever damage was done to the heart by a heart attack doesn't change. It's just that you could function later normally, but there is still a part that doesn't change, doesn't heal, and therefore you don't make, like some people say, or maybe different reasons, we don't know. But lefi al the Rebbe didn't make. So we have to think about, does that prove anything Halacha L'maase legat bechas veshalom a person who has a heart attack legat making a Bracha geimel. Now, this is not the same as negeia, the bracha that we make on the trees in the month of Nisan, which some people also say that we did not see the Rebbe do it. But here it's not such

01:09 a raya because this is something that you do privately. Maybe at one point the Rebbe did do it privately. He saw a tree in front of his house or maybe on the way to day or that we could find out really. But something that you do privately, we can't bring a raya from the fact that he didn't do it, that we didn't see him do it. Later he say in a raya, if you didn't see it, doesn't mean that you didn't do it. But negeia geimel, which is something that you have to do in front of a minyan and has to be bakrias hateirah. So if the Rebbe would do it, we would know about it. So the shaila is, can we learn out from this some Halacha be negeia, the inyan of making Bracha geimel after a heart attack or any similar case? But be'emes, we have to know the circumstances behind it, and then we have to know maybe there are other reasons, other things. So we have to be ma'ayan, is there anything we can learn out from here?