Now that I am learning hilchot avlus (laws of mourning), I find that a bracha got lost. There was a bracha said in the mourner's meal but it was dropped for some reason. It is in the Sephardic siddurim and the Art Scroll has taken the initiative (they were not the first) to put it back in the siddur.
Similarly, the blessing for the Baal Habayit (host) got lost. Again the Sephardic siddur always kept it and the Art Scroll siddur took the the intiative to put it back. (This took awhile since the first blessing after the meal booklet they put out, didn't have it.)
My question is how do these things get lost and are there anymore blessings in the Shulchan Aruch we should bring back. How about all those nice blessings for the various spices instead of the drab old boreh meni besamim.

B"H

Aryeh,

Omitting a blessing from the Siddur doesn't necessarily mean that it was "lost" or that it is no longer halacha. It only means that the editor, or the publisher, was negligent in printing all of the blessings.

David

Well how does it happen and all those askenazic and sefard siddurim which have come out for the last 100 years or so omit them eventhough the front page touts the great gedolim who sponsor the siddur??

The Sdei Chemed is the first to raise the question of what happened to the blessing for the baal Habait (mid 1800s??).
The art scroll gives the maor hagadol as the source that for some reason a lot a people don't say the blessing for the mourner. I can imagine why since it was too complicated for the average person to decide if it was a day one said tachanum or if you needed three or ten to say it.

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There are three kadishim. Kadish shalem with תתקבל , חצי קדיש וקדיש יותם.

Now in the early askenazic minhag, they said kadish shalem before reading the migilah. Apparantly someone thought it should be after the megilah and the sefer minhagim says to say it before and after the migillah. Both the Taz and the Magen Avraham object and say it must be some sort of טעות סופרים . They suggest saying kaddish shalem without תתקבל .

Bottom line: The only time of the year the שליח ציבור says kaddish Yatom is on Purim.

What is the bracha, that is of the topic?

The lost brachas were
the blessing for the mourner in bircat hamazon and the blessing for the Baal Habayit in bircat hamazon.
I guess we should add the new bracha for the baaat habayit found in some of the new benchers.