Questions tagged [blessing]
Questions about short prayers called b'rachos ("benedictions" or "blessings"), generally said to praise/thank God for specific events.
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Gendered text for Gomel
related to Bentching Ha-Gommel after a Birth
Do women bentch gomel less often?
According to some opinions, a woman can say the thanksgiving blessing ("bentch gomel")
The text that one says ...
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Should one recite a bracha for non-kosher meals? [duplicate]
If a Jew who doesn’t keep kosher eats a meal (like non-kosher beef), is it permissible, forbidden or necessary to say some sort of brachot before and after eating?
My initial guess would be no since ...
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New Beracha on Tzizit [duplicate]
If I already made a beracha on a talit katan but then I shower and then put on a new talit katan, do I make a new beracha?
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Aninut and food
After the death of a close relative and before the burial (or the cessation of involvement with the body) one is in a stage of Aninut. During that time, one is exempted (or even forbidden) from many ...
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Why does Asher Yatzar close with a different idea?
The bracha of Asher Yatzar acknowledges the creation of man and his inner workings. It begins by blessing Hashem as the one who formed man and put in him all the things that allow man to operate. It ...
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שהחיינו on baby girl vs הטוב והמטיב for a boy?
The Shulchan Arach (OC 223:1) writes:
ילדה אשתו זכר מברך הטוב והמטיב
So when you have a boy you make the brocho of הטוב והמטיב.
Yet, with the birth of a girl the Mishna Berurah tells us that we ...
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Eating bread with jam, then eats only jam, would he recite a shehakol?
If one is spreading jam on bread and eating it, and then eats only jam, without bread, would he make a shehakol on the jam, or would this be covered by the hamotzi?
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Very Complicated Taz about Bracha on a Safek
I may be reading the Taz wrong in סימן סז, in אורח חיים, but it seems very perplexing to me.
He writes: "לפי שכל דבר שהוא ספק של תורה מברכין עליו כמו בהפרשת דמאי."
I thought that everyone agrees ...
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Bracha b'mitzvat tefillin on tefilla shel rosh
The bracha that appears in all modern siddurim that I'm aware of for the tefilla shel rosh (whether normally or in case of interruption between the two tefillin) ends with the phrase al mitsvat ...
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What bracha does one make on injera?
Injera is a fermented flatbread usually made out teff, a grass. It takes the place of bread at a meal and has the shape of bread (תוריתא דנהמא). Would one still make ha'adama on it?
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Must a kazayit be eaten immediately?
In order to recite an after-beracha —- take bread, for example —- must the full kazayit be eaten right after making the opening-beracha, or could one taste the bread and wait a period of time before ...
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Include "al hagefen" if just had a sip of grape juice when anyways saying me'ein shalosh
Sorry I don't have all the sources in front of me. The basic rule of blessings is that wine/grape juice, fruits from the seven species, and the five grain products get a special after blessing known ...
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Why do we have an explicit rule of Safek Brachos Lehakel if we already have a greater encompassing rule of Safek D'Rabanan L'kulah?
I understand that Safek brachos lehakel might simply be a corollary of Safek D'rabana L'kulah, however I assume there is some nafka minah between the two. The only reason we would have safek brachos ...
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Should one who has become Bar Mitzvah during Sefirah count with a bracha? [duplicate]
My younger brother is turning 13 during Sefirah. I am going to ask my Rabbi, but I am curious about the various opinions of our Gedolim.
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Can I use oak trees for Birkat Ilanot
I live where it's Iyar, April 28 and the few fruit trees I know which are apple haven't yet blossomed.
But oak are plentiful and have long bloomed.
I didn't find an answer in Yalkut Yosef or Yechave ...
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Blessing the Beasts
And…blessed them (Bereshis 1:22):
Rashi:
ויברך אותם: לפי שמחסרים אותן וצדין מהם ואוכלין אותם הוצרכו לברכה. ואף החיות הוצרכו לברכה, אלא מפני הנחש שעתיד לקללה, לכך לא ברכן, שלא יהא הוא בכלל:
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Distinguishing kamatz and patach in tefillin blessing
About the blessing when donning the tefillin Orach Chayim 25:7 says:
יברך להניח בקמץ תחת הה"א ולא בפתח ובדגש:
He should bless lehaniach with kamatz under the hei and not with patach and dagesh.
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Bracha on one tefillin
Someone who only has one of the two tefillin can still don it even without the other.
What Bracha does one make when donning one of the two teffilin? Does it matter which?
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Does the blessing on the karpas cover the pineapple eaten as dessert at the Pesach meal?
At the Pesach Seder, there is a custom to make a blessing “borei pri hoadomoh” on the karpas and have in mind that this will cover the moror when it is eaten later.
There is a custom to make a ...
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Why is al achilat matzah only recited on the seder?
If Al Achilat Matzah is recited on the Mitzva of the Torah to eat Matzah on the night of Pessach, why don't we say it also during the 7 days of Pessach? As it is written "7 days you shall eat Matzot" ...
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What is the longest "short" bracha?
What is the longest "short" bracha? (By a short bracha I mean one that begins with baruach ata ha-shem ... and ends with the subject matter of the bracha, with no second baruch ata ha-shem.) (I am ...
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Halacha of moons disappearance during kiddish levanah?
I thought I’ve read somewhere the moon needs to be visible (although you don’t look up at it) the entirety of kiddish levanah, so when it’s completed and you look up, the moon is still visible. Does ...
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Beracha priority of Al Hamichya fruits
Are the “5 fruits of the land of Israel” automatically ikkar— even without majority— like mezonot?
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Hot chocolate during a meal
Would one need to make a separate bracha on hot chocolate that is drunk with the bread meal if one already made hamotzi, or does the hamotzi bracha cover it?
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"Good trees" grammar in the blessing on trees
I see* various versions of the blessing on seeing trees: most seem to refer to good trees as "אילנות טובות", while some refer to them as "אילנות טובים".
(Grammatically, as far as I know, "טובים" is ...
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Baruch hu u'varuch shemo or Baruch Shemo?
It says in all the seforim (e.g. Orach Chayim 124:5) that one says "Baruch hu u'varuch shemo." But some people say "Baruch Shemo" instead. Is either one correct halachically, or only the former?
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What or is there a difference in Adonai and Adonoy?
I have just started learning Hebrew and I found a transliteration for the after meal blessing which includes Adonai and Adonoy; what is the difference between the two?
“Baruch ha-gever asher yivtach ...
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What is the Torah perspective on our response to coronavirus? [duplicate]
What spiritual response does daas Torah (Rabbonim, Gedolim, etc.) suggest we should utilize in facing coronavirus?
For instance, Rav Yisroel Reisman (Ki Sisa 5780) mentioned saying פיטום הקטורת and ...
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Why mention healing everyone after the restroom and Jews in the amida?
After we use the restroom, we recite a benediction praising God for our ability to do so. The benediction ends by referring to him as the one "who heals all flesh", viz all people.
In the amida ...
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Bracha Acharona after Hesech HaDaas
When eating a bread meal one makes the decision to end the meal, clears the table but then decides to continue eating. Question: Does this constitute Hesech HaDaas?
And if so, when saying a bracha ...
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Is there a connection between Rav Yehuda loving Israel and forbidding the ascent from Babylon to Israel?
The Talmud in Barachot 43a states the following:
אמר ליה רב חסדא לרב יצחק האי משחא דאפרסמון מאי מברכין עלויה א"ל הכי אמר רב יהודה בורא שמן ארצנו א"ל בר מיניה דר' יהודה דחביבא ליה ארץ ישראל ...
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Making the blessing on wine for two people on shabbat morning, but only one needs kiddush
In general, I cannot say borei pri hagafen on behalf of another, if I'm not also drinking wine and making the blessing for myself as well. (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 213:2)
One exception to this ...
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ברכת אשר יצר repeatedly
Is there a grace period as to how many times a person may relieve himself in an allotted amount of time and the recitation of Asher Yatzar? As in, one using the bathroom say three times in 10 minutes; ...
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Berachot 35a - If a before-beracha is more compelling than an after-beracha how do we know that an after-beracha is required?
The Talmud in the beginning of the sixth chapter of Masechet Berachot seeks to find the source that blessings are required for food. At one point in this adventure, the Talmud concludes that there is ...
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Do the brachas of Al Haeitz and Al Hagafen generally have the same halachos as Al Hamichya [closed]
For example, should one sit for them like they do for AL Hamichya. and etc ...
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Blessing in vain, Torah interdiction?
The Rambam in Mishneh Torah (Brachot, 1:15) write :
כָּל הַמְבָרֵךְ בְּרָכָה שֶׁאֵינָהּ צְרִיכָה הֲרֵי זֶה נוֹשֵׂא שֵׁם שָׁמַיִם לַשָּׁוְא וַהֲרֵי הוּא כְּנִשְׁבָּע לַשָּׁוְא וְאָסוּר לַעֲנוֹת ...
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Blessing on blossom twice in a year – in N and S hemispheres. What is involved?
Someone made the blessing on blossom in the Northern hemisphere in Nissan and then went to live in the Southern hemisphere (where it is possible to make the blessing in Elul (see here ). Do the ...
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Why do we say הנותן ליעף כח with Hashem's Name?
The Rema rules in OC 225:2:
יש אומרים מי שנעשה בנו בר מצוה יברך בא"י אמ"ה שפטרני מעונשו של זה וטוב לברך בלא שם ומלכות
Some say that one whose son becomes a Bar Mitzvah should make a blessing ...
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What blessing would one have said on seeing Einstein for example?
The Oruch Hashulchan O Ch 224, 6 says
הרואה חכם מחכמי ישראל שגדול בתורה מברך: "ברוך אתה ה' אלהינו מלך העולם
שחלק מחכמתו ליריאיו,
Someone who sees a Jewish Torah sage makes the blessing “ ...
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Difference between רבון and אדון
In the Beracha of Elohai, we refer to God using a number of different descriptives. Towards the end, we give thanks to God as:
רִבּוֹן כָּל הַמַּעֲשִׂים, אֲדוֹן כָּל הַנְּשָׁמוֹת.
What are some ...
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Takanas Ezra and the 9 Kabin
I would like to begin my question by making everyone aware that I am aware of this thread ( Why don't men go to the mikveh after relations/ejaculation? )
With that being said my question is ...
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Source of wishing "Titchadesh" - תתחדש on new clothes
What is the source for wishing someone "תתחדש" for a new item of clothing?
See the Rema OC:224 who brings a minhag to wish someone that bought new clothes "תבלה ותחדש". Literal translation is "You ...
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A woman saying Shehechyanu on Channukah
I have been reviewing some discussions of a married woman's obligation to light Channukah candles. It appears that according to some, a married woman, whose husband is lighting at home does not light. ...
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Why does Rav Pappa not adjoin the bracha conclusions with a vav by Megillah?
I count four times where Rav Pappa notes differing opinions on how to conclude a bracha and rules to say both of them. In three of these cases, he uses a conjunctive ו to connect them, but not the ...
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Why Itzhak's blessing to Yaakov has to be at Eisav's expense?
יַעַבְדוּךָ עַמִּים וְיִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְךָ לְאֻמִּים,
הֱוֵה גְבִיר לְאַחֶיךָ וְיִשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ לְךָ בְּנֵי אִמֶּךָ ...׃
Let peoples serve you, And nations bow to you; Be master over your brothers, ...
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implicit intent of blessing for unintended items
What are the main positions and/or halachic consensus regarding the applicability of the appropriate bracha rishona (other than "hamotzi") originally made on a food item / drink without conscious ...
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Can one Reciting bracha "Mechaye Hameitim" at a friend's wedding
I have seen in several Siddurim instructions saying that if one has not seen a close friend for at least 30 days (some instructions said 1 year) s/he should recite Mechaye Hameitim which means "...
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Why doesn't the Chattan say the bracha for Kiddushin?
If Kiddushin is a mitzvah that applies to the chattan only, and the 1st bracha recited under the chuppah (besides the bracha for wine) is a bracha prior to the performance of the mitzvah of Kiddushin, ...
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Shinui Makom Summary Table
Is there available online a summary table, or better yet, a decision tree, that presents the conditional logic of the somewhat complicated laws of hesech hada'ath/shinui makom (diverted attention, e.g....
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Bracha on Chia Seed Infused Water?
Would this be shehakol or boreh pri since the chia seeds are visible in the water even though they are very small? Would the concentration of chia seeds in the water matter?
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