<p>what about brich hu as a hefsek? can we get a shiur on saying brich hu (and why some say amein) in kaddish? where can you answer it? is like an amein?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In the Beis Hamidrash of the Chasam Sofer, the worshippers would answer &ldquo;baruch hu u&rsquo;voruch shemo&rdquo; during the berachah before blowing the shofar, but the Chasam Sofer did not stop them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>(Shut Maharam Shik, Orach Chaim, responsum 51) A point for consideration is whether the Chasam Sofer would distinguish in this matter on the one hand between mitzvas shofar where the berachah is bircas hamitzvah and thus not l&rsquo;ikuva, and on the other hand, kiddush, where the berachah itself is the mitzvah?</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" align="left"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rav Avraham Dovid </span><span lang="EN-GB">ben Asher Anshel Wahrman </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">&ndash; the Eshel Avraham Buczacz (1770 &ndash; 1840) writes (Orach Chaim chapter 66) that when he was the shliach tzibur he would say the ends of all the berachos (boruch ato&hellip;) before and after the shema silently, so that the tzibur would not answer &ldquo;baruch hu u&rsquo;voruch shemo&rdquo; since it was forbidden to answer with these words at this part of the service.</span></span></span></p>