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Asher Ben Haim
The Rema Orach Chayim 128:44 explains that throughout the year people living outside of Israel are worried about their livelihood and, therefore, not in a true state of simcha which is necessary for birkat kohanim. Only on Yom Tov at Musaf time when they are about to leave shul and rejoice in the day's celebrations are they in the proper frame of mind for the beracha.
The Aruch HaShulchan Orach Chayim 128:64 has difficulty justifying a custom that allows one of the 613 mitzvot to be skipped over most of the year. "But what can we do," he says, "for it is as if a heavenly voice issued forth stopping us from 'lifting the hands' during the year. I have a tradition that two great Torah authorities attempted to institute it on a daily basis and...they were unable and said that so it has been decreed from Heaven."
Denizens of the diaspora, don't dispair. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach quotes the Shelah who wrote from Eretz Yisrael to his family still in Chutz la'Aretz: "...the kohanim raise their hands every day and I keep you in mind and draw the blessing to you."
May we all merit to receive God's threefold blessing of His people.
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Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
