Questions tagged [bread]
Questions pertaining to bread.
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Can egg Matzo be used to make an Eruv Chatzeiros on Pesach?
Inspired by Matzah eruvin on erev Pesach
Can egg Matzo be used to make an Eruv Chatzeiros on Pesach? On Pesach, Ashkenazim do not eat egg Matzo; however, it is not Chometz. In certain instances it ...
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Eating bread on Shabbos
A friend was on a diet and was told that if he does not want to eat bread on Shabbos, he does not have to. Is this correct? Do we have an obligation to wash for bread and have three meals on Shabbos?...
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What sort of covering is required for Challa and cake while making Kiddush?
The Halacha is that we cover the Challa / Cake while we make Kiddush in order not to embarass it (Talmud Yerushalmi as quoted by the Tur, Orach Chaim 271) as we are not making Hamotzi / Mezonos first. ...
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Why are bread and wine important?
In the first Rashi of the sixth chapter of Mesechet Brachos, Rashi writes that wine (and bread) have their own Brachas because they are important. What does Rashi base this statement off of? Where ...
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Throwing out bread or Challah
In todays generation when there is leftover bread or Challah we often discard it. As bread is the food for life there are those that either feed it to the birds, make kugel, breadcrumbs, etc. instead ...
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boreh pri hagafen and hamotzi during the week
On Shabbat and holidays, we say kiddush before hamotzi (I think because hamotzi would normally cover the wine? Is that right?). During the week, what is the proper procedure? Is it to say hagafen and ...
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How can chala be taken from baked bread?
I understand that i can take off chala from baked bread. How is this done?
Why is there no problem that the taste of the bread (before chala was taken) will be in the oven tray? The bread, before ...
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A bread is made with exactly 50% whole wheat flour and 50% chickpea flour. Is the bracha hamotzi?
Wheat is one of the 5 grains, so that would qualify the bread to be hamotzi. Chickpea flour would make the bracha "shehakol". In this bread, there is no majority ingredient. So would the bracha be ...
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What do you do if you make a Mezonos on cake, but then decide to eat a lot more?
For certain types of bread-like foods, one only washes and makes HaMotzi when eating a sufficiently fixed quantity. Suppose you make a Mezonos a small amount of cake, and after finishing it you ...
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Pas (Pat) vs Lechem
In Tanach/Mishna/Gemara sometimes the word Pas is used, and sometimes Lechem.
Do Chazal say anything about when and why one is used vs the other?
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I was asked for an example: In Mishna Brachos ...
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Define pas for pas yisroel
There is the whole discussion of pas with regard to whether it needs to be baked by a Jew... Yoreh deah siman 112.
How do we define bread? I know it must contain one of the 5 grains(sif aleph). Does ...
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Why is Birkat Hamazon said after eating just a small piece of bread?
Berachos 21a:
Whence is it that Grace after meals is ordained by the Torah? As it is
said, "And thou shalt eat and be satisfied and bless the Lord thy
God" (Deut. viii. 10).
The verse ...
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Throwing Out Bread
What is the nature of the prohibition to destroy bread? Why is it commonly presented differently from other destruction (bal tashchit)?
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Minhag of throwing Challah at the Friday night Seuda
Aruch HaShulchan 167:31 and Be'er Hataiv 167:22 both say that it is forbidden to throw the (Challah) bread. I have heard that there are some people (I heard that there are some Rabannim who do so) ...
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Is tevel dough muktzah on yom tov?
If one baked bread on yom tov in Eretz Yisroel (from dough kneaded prior to Yom Tov) and relized when the bread was still in the oven that he forgot to take off challah, must the bread then be ...
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Bread with fruit baked into it
What would be the bracha on "bread" that had mashed fruit or vegetable kneaded into the dough, but tastes like bread? For example, if you mashed a few potatoes into the dough, then the bread will ...
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What to do if you made hamotze on something requiring mezonot?
If you accidentally made a hamotze on a food item only requiring mezonot, do you say al hamichya or birkat hamazon for the beracha acharona?
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What is the blessing on dough?
Shulchan Aruch discusses the blessing on baked dough (various places - Hamotzi), fried dough (O.C. 168:10), raw grain kernels (Ha'adama - O.C. 208:4), flour (shehakol - 208:5), and various cooked ...
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Figuring out a K'zayit by weight/volume of ingredients
In this question, I learned that one measures the amount of flour used to determine whether challah separation is necessary. Here I learned that there is a difference of opinion between (some) ...
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Throwing out cake or pastry larger than a k'zayis
One is not allowed to throw out pieces of bread larger than a k'zayis. Rabbi Doniel Neustadt (here in footnote 2) says this also applies to pastry and cake, but doesn't provide a source for this. ...
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Are chemically leavened crackers kosher for Passover? [duplicate]
I’ve been invited to a home Seder this month, and would like to bring something. Someone suggested I bring some unleavened crackers. I was raised Jewish, but never kept kosher, or even observed the ...
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What is the bracha for a deli roll?
A deli roll is a puff pastry dough rubbed with mustard and filled with assorted deli meats (usually pastrami and turkey.)
Is this considered pas haba bekisnin? (one definition of this term is:
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Throwing out bagged bread vs. feeding to ducks?
There is a prohibition of throwing out bread in larger quantities than a k'zayit (olive-size) if it is still fit for human consumption (see Orach Chayim 180:3; Regarding if it is no longer fit for ...
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In modern Judaism, do they still make Menorah Stamps for the purpose of Marking Kosher Bread?
I just found this article, and I thought it was cool: https://www.livescience.com/17821-kosher-bread-stamp-discovered.html. The link says that during the Byzantine Era in Horbat Uza, Jewish bakers of ...
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Don't Put a Needle in Bread? (What is the Taz referring to?)
The Taz YD 116:6 on the last line brings a case that he heard that one should protest putting a needle into bread. What is the Taz referring, to and what exactly is he worried about?
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Hamotzi during the week - dip? rip off a piece?
On Shabbos Hamotzi is done with much funfare - start the cut before, cut a piece, dip in salt. What about during the week?
Is it a good thing to:
dip in salt?
rip off a piece and eat that piece ...
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Do we withdraw our hands from bread?
The Shulchan Aruch 177:2 rules that one who removes the bread from the table must make a new beracha on whatever he eats for the rest of the meal:
ודברים הבאים לאחר סעודה קודם ברכת המזון שהיה מנהג ...
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May one use bread for havdallah?
One may use bread for Kiddush if wine or grape juice are not available but may one use bread for havdallah when wine or grape juice are not available?
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Do you have to eat bread meal(s) on every day of Chol HaMoed?
Many say there is an obligation to eat meals with bread as part of simchas Yom Tov.
Is there a similar obligation to eat bread during Chol HaMoed? If so, how often? For example, during Chol HaMoed ...
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What to do when uncertain regarding a Bracha on dessert during a bread meal?
If you are having a bread-meal and you have dessert in front of you, but you are uncertain if the homotzie covered it - what do you do?
Don't eat it?
Eat it without a Bracha?
Say shehakol (in the ...
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Can non-bread combine with bread towards making one satisfied for bentching?
According to the halachic sources one may bentch once a kezayis of bread has been eaten within 3,4 or 9 minutes.
Source:
Time Limit (min) – How much time does one have to consume the kazayis
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What blessing is made on a taco, burrito, or plain flour tortilla?
My copy of "Guide to Blessings, The Brochos for Various Foods" compiled by Rabbi Naftali Hoffner (NCSY/OU) states that tortillas get the "Shehakol" blessing because they are made of maize (corn) flour....
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Brachos on the amount of pizza one doesn't wash for?
Assuming one is eating let pizza than required to wash, what are the bracha rishona and the bracha achrona?
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Eating bread/pastries from a non-Jewish baker
There are various commentaries that allow eating pat paltar, see here and here for a more extensive discussion.
Going with the opinion that pat paltar is allowed what questions would one have to ask ...
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Koshering the celim that milchig bread was baked in
In Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah Siman 97 it says that it's ossur to bake "milchig bread" -- lest you come to eat it with meat (although if it's made in a small amount or with a change in it's look from ...
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What blessing to make on a cronut?
The local kosher DD is now stocking their imitation of the famous cronut. According to the teudah on the wall, pas Yisrael isn't an issue with donuts since they are fried, croissants require washing ...
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wash hands before eating or touching bread
Is it important to wash one's hands before eating or is also the preparation of the meal important as well? Should one wash before handling bread but not make a brachah or is washing only relevant to ...
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Machshirin and being satisfied with wetting
Mishnah Machshirin 3:3 explains that a loaf of bread which is placed over the top of a wine cask and absorbs wine fumes is considered hechsher. But why is this the case, because there is no reason to ...
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Does the proximity rule for hand washing water extend to b'racha precedence?
Assuming that one must wash one's hands before eating bread unless the water is very far away, and
assuming one is near water, and
assuming that the highest precedence b'racha is the b'racha for bread ...
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Is there any source for throwing bread during tashlich? [duplicate]
Is there a reliable Jewish source that encourages throwing bread when performing tashlich?
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What is the halachic definition of "tzurat hapat" in terms of requiring birkat hamotzi?
A comment below this M.Y. answer says that one of the requirements to make a blessing of "Hamotzi" is that the item must have "tzurat hapat" (the form / shape of bread.)
I am unclear as to what the ...
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Kashrut of Bread [duplicate]
Assuming bread was prepared and baked by a Gentile using only kosher ingredients (e.g. kosher flour, water and kosher yeast) and only kosher equipment, what conditions would render such bread fit for ...
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What's the difference between יאכלו נקודים and יתחלקו לעסות (in תרומות פ״ה)?
A few משניות in chapter 5 of מסכת תרומות discuss טמא wheat kernels that got mixed with טהור ones that never became מוכשרים לקבל טומאה. They say that, to avoid making the טהור ones טמא, we do one of ...
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Did Avrohom own חמץ on פסח?
In Gensis 18 -6, when Avrohom hosted the angels, he told his wife to
מַֽהֲרִ֞י שְׁל֤שׁ סְאִים֙ קֶ֣מַח סֹ֔לֶת ל֖וּשִׁי וַֽעֲשִׂ֥י עֻגֽוֹת:
"Hasten three seah of meal [and] fine flour; knead and ...
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What is the blessing on cricket bread?
This recent article speaks of commercially available bread made from ground crickets. To clarify, crickets are ground into flour and used in some combination with wheat flour.
Now, to the best of my ...
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Waiting for the host to recite Hamotzi to have me in mind
When washing for bread and waiting for the host to recite Hamotzi to have me in mind, after how long would my washing and hearing the brocha become a hefsek?
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Making bracha when passing by a bakery
I've heard before that one should make a bracha when passing by a bakery that has a pleasant smell of what's being baked. What is the source for this halacha? What is the custom in this, do we yes ...
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Bread machine for mixing Challah/Recipe for bread machine mixed Challah
The last time I tried to make challah I failed, because it wouldn't rise in the bread machine and just stayed kind of watery. Before I ask this, is Challah allowed to be mixed in a bread machine? If ...
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If one is allergic to bread, what should he do for Challah and Matzah? [duplicate]
Let's say that someone is allergic to bread. All five grains. Not fatally, but enough that it causes a serious allergic reaction (say, to a degree that he would be allowed to take medicine on Shabbos)....
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Should you say al netilat yadaim if you're not sure how much bread you will be eating?
http://www.berachot.org/Q+A/q9.html:
According to Sephardim, if one ate less than a kezayit of bread
there's no obligation to wash, if one ate one kezayit one should wash
without a Bracha of Al ...