Reply To: "Baruch ata Hashem? – How can we bestow blessings on Hashem?

Ok. The only ones I saw were the sefer hachinuch and the aruch hashulchan.

I do not understand the aruch hashulchan, I looked up the pasuk he is referring to in shmuel, but I don’t have a mikraos gedolos on nach. He seems to be saying something along the lines of that we only receive from Hashem in proportion to how we enable him to give us, almost as if Hashem only had what we “gave” him by doing mitzvos.

The sefer hachinuch, after a lengthy disclaimer that he does not understand these issues, seems to be saying that we are saying that Hashem is the most “Baruch”, that he has all the blessings. Then, since he has all the blessings, we can ask him to give us some them.

This explanation is pretty much in line with the one you are espousing, and it even reads perfectly into the language.

Thanks!