Birkat HaMazon After Significant Delay
The mishna states that one can bentch only until the food is digested. The gemara offers two opinions...
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Reciting a Beracha Oneself or Relying on Another Person’s Beracha
Let us begin with a true story, whose relevance should be clear later. An Ashkenazi man got engaged...
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The Beracha on Pizza
To understand this, we must first consider what makes a food deemed to be bread or a quasi-bread....
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Beracha on Ice Cream for Dessert
The gemara presents the basic rules of berachot during a meal in which one ate bread. Foods that...
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Two Out of a Group Who Want to do a Zimun
The gemara says that if three people eat together, one stops eating to answer for two who want...
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How to Proceed with Birkat HaMazon after Zimun
This is a classic case of a practice that has changed from the manner it was originally intended,...
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Combining Small Amounts of Foods for a Beracha Acharona
We will focus on only a few of this issue’s many possible permutations. We start with the case...
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Shehecheyanu on Vegetables
We must distinguish between the answer in principle and in practice. In principle, Shehecheyanu applies to anything that...
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Answering Amen to an Electronically Heard Beracha
One can be yotzei a beracha by hearing it only if it is made by a person who...
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When to Make a Beracha on the Morning Netilat Yadayim
The gemara describes the morning berachot as being recited as one performs the particular action to which each...
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