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Answer: Two gemarot regarding similar mitzvot are instructive. One (Menachot 43a) asks about Rav Yehuda’s consistency regarding tzitzit. He had his wife wear tzitzit because he saw it as a non-time-based mitzva (i.e., it applies 24/7), but he made a beracha on them every morning, as if each day were a new mitzva! The gemara answers that he posited that one who takes a break in an ongoing mitzvot makes a new beracha when resuming it. The source is Rabbi’s opinion (Sukka 46a) that one makes a beracha on tefillin each time he puts them on. The latter gemara tells of Rava making a beracha on tefillin every time he left the bathroom and those who made a beracha each time they "handled" them.
The Tur (Orach Chayim 8) understands the gemara about making a beracha upon handling tefillin as referring to a case where it slipped totally out of place, which made a beracha necessary upon its return. At first, he equated that case to one removing his tallit and returning it. However, he concludes that when one purposely removes tzitzit or tefillin with the plan to promptly return it relatively soon, he does not make a new beracha. The Beit Yosef (OC 8) argued based on the gemara about making a beracha on tefillin after the bathroom, despite the intention to return them soon, showing that after any break in the performance of tefillin or tzitzit, we need a new beracha (see Shulchan Aruch, OC 8:14; OC 25:12).
For Ashkenazim, the ruling is more complicated. The Rama (Darchei Moshe, OC 8:6) dismisses the proof from the beracha on tefillin after the bathroom, because the fact that it is forbidden to wear tefillin in the bathroom magnifies the break in the mitzva. In contrast, since one may wear tzitzit in the bathroom, and fundamentally even a tallit, the break for a bathroom visit does not require a new beracha. The Rama (OC 8:14) accepts a different distinction. If one takes his tallit off but keeps his tzitzit on, the mitzva continues sufficiently to make a new beracha unnecessary; if he takes both off, he needs a beracha. According to this, if one takes off his tzitzit (with no tallit on), then even if he returns it relatively quickly, he would seem to need a new beracha. Many have difficulty with this distinction, considering that the beracha on each garment is independent and that regarding tefillin the Rama (OC 25:12) does not require a beracha even though no tefillin remain on (see Nachalat Tzvi 8:14).
Despite the positions of the Shulchan Aruch and Rama, most Sephardi and Ashkenazi Acharonim (see Mishna Berura 8:37; Aruch Hashulchan, OC 8:21; Yalkut Yoself, OC 8:52) say that if one is planning to put tzitzit back on relatively soon, he need not make a new beracha. This is to a great extent because, given that there are respected opinions not to make a beracha, we say safek berachot l’hakel (in a doubt whether to make a beracha, we refrain from it).
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Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 9 - "Seeing is Believing" (parag. 21-30)
These paragraphs elaborate on the theme that seeing and knowing is better than any attempt to prove logically, and begins explaining the difference between Israel and gentiles.
Ein Aya Various Universal Stages of the Geula Process
Rav Kook examines the various stages of redemption, explaining how (in addition to the obvious oft-mentioned stages of ingathering the exiles, reviving the Hebrew language, army, state etc.) the messianic dream of world prosperity, the State of Israel and world unity can and are realistically and logically gradually coming true.
Kuzari -Rabbi Ari Shvat Kuzari class 8- "Answering Questions on the Kuzari's Proof from Mass Revelation
How do we know that the "claim" of mass revelation to 2,000,000 witnesses at Mt. Sinai is really true? This important class answers all of the questions skeptics ask about this claim of the Kuzari.
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As a preparation for the Kuzari's classic proof of G-d from the mass-revelation at Sinai, we start here with 5 other directions to strengthen our belief which also contribute to what the Kuzari will present as well.
Ein Aya Muscle & Meaning: The Dual Nature of Gevurah (Physical Strength)
Is physical strength and fitness a necessity or an ideal? Although it if often totally overlooked among topics of Judaism, Rav Kook writes that it clearly is also a necessity to deter the many enemies of Israel, but even in Y'mot HaMashiach, in the Messianic era, to a certain extent, it's ideal continues even after our enemies will have been finished off.
