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A driver who was traveling in Bnei Brak early Thursday afternoon, 17 Teves, can bentch Gomel as a truck carrying a container of construction debris was making a right turn from Abarbanel Street to HaTzvi Street when the contained flipped off the truck, landing a millimeter from the driver of the car.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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not so sure he would bench goimel. if he was under all that debris and came out alive, THEN he would bentch goimel.
if reuven crossed the road a second b/4 a drunk driver hit shimon who was walking behind him, revuen would not bentch goimel.
same if s/1 got of the bus a second b/4 it exploded, he would not bentch goimel, only if he was ON the bus and survived!
chilliworker2: You are spot-on 100% correct. I heard that Rav Moshe Bick Zt”l jokingly gave the following analogy:
If your pants were drying on the clothes line (if any of you remember those!) and a wind blew them off, would you bentch gomel because if you were wearing the pants you could have been hurt?
One must be very careful before reciting hagomel, shehecheyanu, etc. I’m also sure that sometimes people forget or aren’t aware that they should say berachos like shehecheyanu, Hartov vehameitiv, etc.
A mirror almost fell on one of our babies once as I was on my way to shul and my mother in law who was visiting us at the time demanded that I say hagomel. I was ready to lie and say I did for the sake of shalom, but I wanted to avoid lying if I could. Luckily somebody had just flown in from America and was “yotzei” me in his hagomel 🙂
assurnet: You did good. Better than I would have done if it were my shvigger.
Can someone explain the reason to Hagomel after a flight? Or after a flight from Eretz Yisrael?