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I take off my tzitzit to play ball. Do I make a new bracha when I put them back on?

Rav Daniel Mann, Eretz Hemdah Institute · First published January 30, 2025

In short, in Rav Mann's words: "Most Sephardi and Ashkenazi Acharonim … say that if one is planning to put tzitzit back on relatively soon, he need not make a new bracha." "Yalkut Yosef (ibid.) says the cutoff is half an hour. Most Ashkenazim assume it is longer, and while an exact cutoff is elusive (see Dirshu 8:52)—something like two hours seems to be around right."

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