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Yes, the brachas don't always go hand-in-hand. For instance, let's assume (but check with your rabbi) that one piece of pizza is a "snack", and two makes a meal. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch rules (about pseudo-bread items, let's assume pizza is such an item) that if you decide you only want one piece of pizza, you make a mezonot then eat it. If you then change ...

The Halacha is fairly clear about how to treat various categories of grain product: Bread Grain products that aren't at all bread (e.g. pasta) Quasi-bread not usually treated as bread What's far less clear is exactly what fits into which category. If, for instance, you consider cheerios to be #3, then you'd have to wash, make hamotzi, and bench on ...

For something baked to be Mezonos it must fulfill one of the following requirements: The dough is so liquidy one cannot roll it in one's hands and one fries it in a pan. The dough is so liquidy one cannot roll it in one's hands and one fries it in a hole in an oven (so it gathers in one spot and becomes thick there). Pas Habaah Bekisnin - There are three ...

According to this (which includes footnotes to the original sources) the bracha is Mezonot. There are two main instances where the bracha on bread is Mezonot: when small pieces of bread are mixed with other ingredients, to the p[o]int that they are no longer recognizable as bread when small pieces of bread are cooked When bread is 1) ...

To answer this in a different derech from Shalom's excellent answer: Birkat Hamazon is an independent obligation from Hamotzi. If you forgot to say a beracha before eating bread, you'd still be required to say Birkat Hamazon when you finished. Note that there's no minimum shiur required for saying Hamotzi. You need to say Hamotzi on even the smallest crumb ...

Take a look at OC 271 (12) MB{58} where the משנה ברורה (quoting the מ"א) states that the entire discussion of when to wash refers to the person making Kiddush. The rest of the family (and guests) can always wash before Kiddush. This would be a solution for those who want to have "the best of both worlds" on Sukkoth; especially if you provide the MeKadesh ...

When Halacha deals with foods which are Ikar/Tafel (main/subordinate) - the Ikar/Tafel relationship is a logical one. In this case the bread has nothing to do with neither the fish nor the meat - so it wouldn't be in the geder of Ikar/Tafel. In your example above, eating the bread after the salty fish is in order not to harm him in his throat - this is ...

Technically what's happening at this stage is that you make two blessings, 'hamotzi' and 'al akhilas matza' and then eat one portion for each blessing. The side that puts it all together might do so because both blessings/portions are being done at once. The other side would say that since it's really two steps, they should be split.