The Shulhan Aruch (Orah Haim 183:9) rules that one must sit down with a sense of reverence to recite Birkat Hamazon, […] Read More
Category: Daily Moroccan Halachot
The Shulhan Aruch (Orah Haim 184:5) rules that one may recite Birkat Hamazon as long as one is still satiated from that […] Read More
Women and Birkat Hamazon Rabbi Lebhar, author Magen Avot Redacted by Dr. Emile Amzallag The Gemara (Berachot 20b) discusses whether women […] Read More
Whereas the vast majority of blessings are rabbinic in origin, the obligation to recite Birkat Hamazon has its source in the Torah. […] Read More
The Gemara (Berachot 46a) discusses the importance of a guest reciting Birkat HaOre’ah, a special prayer in Birkat Hamazon for one’s host when […] Read More
The Shulhan Aruch (Orah Haim 202:7) rules that if dates are mashed and thus change form, the blessing would still be “Bore Peri Ha’Etz”. […] Read More
The Tosefta (Kelaim 3:13) defines a tree, for the purposes of reciting “Bore PeriHaEtz”, as a plant whose fruit come off of branches which emerge from […] Read More
The Gemara (Berachot 36a) discusses the blessing for hearts of palm, the soft inner core of palm stems, and concludes that it should be “Shehakol”, and not […] Read More
There is a concept in the area of blessings over foods known as Ikar and Tafel, or primary and secondary foods. In other words, foods […] Read More
As mentioned previously, whenever two types of food are mixed together, that which is in the majority or which is […] Read More