Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
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even though you may have had a whole bowl of fruits in front of you when you said that first bracha on the fruit that was in your hand.
And then the Shulchan Aruch says, But because you were in that first bracha, you need to say, So the question is, and what does that do?
Meaning, is there any other example in all of halacha where you violate an isser, and then immediately after violating an isser, you say some magic phrase, and the isser just goes away?
So the Archa Shulchan explains in Sifteh Zayin in Sifteh Reishvav,
maybe because implicit in being is a lack of respect for so you do something to demonstrate great respect
meaning to say, it doesn't really fix the isser, but you're sort of making up for the failure that led to the isser, for the failure in recognizing the Kvod Shem Shemaim, and therefore you're showing a little extra Kvod Shem Shemaim.
In fact, the Mechabe writes that, That's why you're saying it.
He doesn't say because you're a Masakin, and now it's not that you're a Moshe Shem Shemaim Vatala, but it's because you're a Moshe Shem Shemaim Vatala.
That's a little bit different than the Yerushalmi.
The Yerushalmi, which that halacha in the Shulchan Aruch is based on, the Yerushalmi is where it talks about if you have a fruit in your hand and you say the brach and you drop it,
The Yerushalmi says, So that it will turn out that you weren't.
The implication of the Yerushalmi is that in some way or another, this fixes the Yisr.
Whatever the Lamdas might be, it fixes the Yisr.
So two ways to look at Baruch Shem.
Either that it erases the Yisr, that's the Mash Mosul Yishalmi, or what Yeruch HaShulkun says, it doesn't erase the Yisr, but it's sort of a way of making up for your failing in the failing that led to that Yisr.
There may be enough Kaminas, that you should say, Baruch Shalom, take it from me.
that as soon as you say the bracha, you cannot delay, you have to say it right away.
And others are not so certain that that's the case, that it needs to be said right away.
It could be that it's only a mitzvah chassidus, and therefore you could wait.
In fact, Rav Moshe Feinstein is quoted as having said this,