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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
Days of celebration and days of fasting, after matan torah
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Av 11, 5774
Talmudic calendar
Rabbi Moshe Leib Halberstadt | Adar 1, 5780
Saying Tachanun at Mincha before a Special Day
Various Rabbis | Iyyar 16, 5768
