Friday, June 30, 2017

blessing - Why do you make a Bracha on seeing a monkey?


Why do you make the Bracha Mishaneh Habriyos on seeing a monkey?



Answer



The Mileches Shlomo on Kilayim (8:6) says the gemara in Sanhedrin says that the Dor HaMabul (generation of the flood) turned into monkeys and that is one of the reasons we make the bracha Mishaneh Habriyos translated- who changes the creations-on monkeys.



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