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- Birkat Cohanim
Question
If I am an israeli cohen davvening with a minyan in chutz laaretz on second day yomtov, must I say Birkay Cohanim with the minyan(and with a brocha)?
Answer
The Halacha does not oblige you to say Birkat Cohanim (you have to leave the shul in Chazarat Hashatz before Retze). If you do go up and bless Am Yisrael - you have done a Mitzva.
Rabbi Yitzchak Grinblat
Pri Ha’adama on Tu Bishvat
Various Rabbis | Shevat 10, 5769
Talmudic calendar
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Adar 1, 5780
Chutz La’aretz - 2 days Yom Tov
Rabbi Yoel Lieberman | Nisan 7, 5773
