Blessing on Honoring Parents

Hello, why is there no blessing for the mitzvah of honoring parents?

Hello,

There are several reasons why there is no blessing for honoring parents:

• The Rashba in his responsa (Part 1, Siman 18) writes that the mitzvah depends not on the doer but on the recipient.
• Since non-Jews also perform this mitzvah, no blessing is recited over it (Binyamin Ze'ev, Siman 169, and comparison to the Gemara Menachot 42).
• It is a mitzvah without limitation, similar to not reciting a blessing over the recitation of the Haggadah (Abudraham).
• Since this mitzvah is also in thought, no blessing was instituted for matters of the heart, as the Chareidim writes that the essence of honoring parents is in the heart, as it is written in the verse "with their mouth and lips they honor Me, but their heart is far from Me" (Isaiah 29:13).
• If the father is wicked, there is no obligation of honor, and it is impossible to know if the father is wicked.
• No blessing was instituted for mitzvot between man and his fellow, only for mitzvot between man and God, either because it can be forgiven or because it is a rational mitzvah.