Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

So, in fact, in the Shoal HaMeshav, he says that if a shofar wrote Tzvilin when he was in Onayn, that they're Koshar Tzvilin.

Dipshitalei D'mikri Shapir Bar Kshira.

Because he's called a Barak Shira while he's an Onein.

And only someone who's a Barak Shira can write Tefillin.

That's why a woman cannot be a Sofer to write Tefillin, even if she has fantastic handwriting, right?

It doesn't matter.

So, because she's not a Barak Shira.

On the other hand, the Rosh at the end of Masech Tainah says that an Onein is considered Pater B'Yetzem.

So, Rav Adia says that Rav Shlomo Kaluga writes similarly in Tuftan Vadas, Lissa, Chaluk Beis, and Rish Vav.

that he quotes the nesivus that we quoted before, and he disagrees.

He says, at the time of his chiv in Bir Samazon, when he ate and he was saveya, he was pata from all mitzvahs.

He's not at all included in mitzvahs.

So maybe it will depend on that.

That if an onen is sort of included, he just doesn't do it.

So maybe when he says the bracha, it is a bracha, it's not a bracha levat halah.

But if he's not included at all in the mitzvah, then maybe it's a bracha levat halah.

It might depend on that issue.

Rav Adya brings it back to the case of the Asher Yatzar, to depend on that issue as well.

Now my brother pointed out that one can argue that when you say a bracha levat halah, a bracha shein etzricha, it loses the status of a bracha, and it requires a baruch shein.

An onein is pater, and even aser to make brachos, but the bracha is appropriate for what he is doing.