Q&A: Doubt Regarding Blessings
Doubt Regarding Blessings
Question
Hello and blessings.
In the third book of the trilogy, the Rabbi explains that even laws originating anew from logical reasoning (and not only laws derived by reasoning that analyzes a law already stated explicitly in the Torah) have Torah-level force with respect to cases of doubt. If so, it would follow that one should be stringent regarding blessings over enjoyment, since the entire source of this law is logical reasoning (according to the Talmud in Berakhot 35a). How does this fit with the common rule that in cases of doubt regarding blessings one is lenient, and more generally with the common assumption that blessings over enjoyment are rabbinic?
Answer
See my article on the status of logical reasoning, here on the site. Indeed, in my opinion one should be stringent, but recite the blessing without God's name and kingship (because God's name and kingship are a rabbinic requirement).