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Benediction to be recited over stuffing?
On Thanksgiving, many have the custom to eat stuffing, which usually incorporates bread as a major ingredient, with their turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. What bracha should be recited up it? ...
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Saying Birkat ha-Mazon without having said ha-Motsi before eating
If one has not said ha-Motsi before eating bread( of the amount for which Birkat ha-Mazon is required), is one still required to say Birkat ha-Mazon after eating?
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Washing for bread before Kiddush. Convenient for sukkos?
There is a custom followed by Jews of German extraction to wash for Hamotzi before making Kiddush. See OC 271 (12) MB{61}. This is very convenient for those who have an outside sukka and don’t want ...
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Bread between fish and meat requires hamotzi?
Shulchan Aruch, OC 212:1 (with my own loose translation):
All that is main, and with it is a subordinate (tafel) thing — one says a benediction on the main thing and exempts the subordinate ...
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“Motzi Matzah” or “Motzi and Matzah” (separately)? Passover Seder
In some haggadot, I have seen the numbers of sections as being 14, with Motzi Matzah being combined, and in other haggadot, I have seen 15 with them separated. What is the reason behind each side?
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What are the conditions for bread earning the bracha of HaMotzi?
I've seen bread made with juice on airplanes and the insert says these are "mezonos" rolls. And, as we know, matzah is "HaMotzi."
In the first instance, it looks like bread but we treat it like ...
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matzah = mezonos or hamotzi
What is the reasoning of the 2 different minhagim (traditions) on what bracha to say on matzah when its not Peasach?
