Have a cigarette & relax

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Have a cigarette & relax   This coming second Seder night, after you are done with the יקנה"ז (Kiddush/Havdalah)  you should smoke a cigarette to calm down. After the cigarette, you proceed with the Seder. (Yalkut Meiam Loaz)                                            -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The מגן אברהם is מסופק (not sure) if smoking requires a ברכה. The שו"ת כתב סופר (O.Ch.24) writes that R. Mordechai Benet zt"l made a שהכל on food or drink before smoking and had in mind to be מוציא the smokes. The שלחן הטהר (R. Izak Kamarna zt"l) writes "We don't make a ברכה on smoking because in the times of the גמרא there was no such thing as smoking. We can't make up a ברכה on our own. However, Ba'al Shem Tov made the Bracha before smoking. because the proper ברכה for smoking was given over to him by אליהו הנביא and his Rebbi אחיה השילוני. Since then, it was forgotten, and the proper ברכה is unknown to us ." THE ABOVE DISCUSSION IS FOR THE ברכה ראשונה THE ברכה אחרונה IS NOT DONE BY THE SMOKER BUT BY HIS RELATIVES. THE ברכה IS ברוך דיין האמת אמבצי

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