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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 ...

The rules of eating a meal in the same place one made or heard kidush are written among the rules of Friday night's kidush (and applied to both). Thus, the rule (Mishna B'rura 273:25) that cake suffices for this (so one need not immediately eat bread) applies to the nighttime as well as the daytime kidush. (However, even if he is famished during the day and ...

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 ...

I asked two Rabbonim this question years ago and they both gave me the same answer: While it is true that 5 minim are not batel (unless insignificant), and normally the rest of the product becomes secondary (tafel) to the primary (ikar) mezonos, in a case such as cookie ice cream where there is so much ice cream relative to a small amount of added mezonos, ...

דמדברי הש״ס משמע דבסתם פת מיירי כל שמסיר הרעבון this translates to "from the words of the Gemara it is understood that when it says Pas, Pas = anything that takes away hunger" Based on this eating crackers or cereal would suffice for Pas Shacharis. Rabbi Monsour brings in the name of HaRav Bentzion Abba Shaul that one fulfills this obligation also ...

I assume the question means the following case. A person had cooked rice and (let’s say) cooked oatmeal in front of him. He made the brocho BM”M on the rice and the question is whether this will cover the oatmeal. There are two stages to the answer. 1) Rice is not so choshuv (important) as oats. As proof see the Mishna Berura 208 (7)[30] where we see that ...

AhS OH 213:6 And thus is the halachah and the widespread custom that one does not discharge another's obligation in any [brachah], and each makes his own brachah, since even for "Hamotzi" and birkas ha-mazon, there are few in our time [who follow the practice of] one being motzi another, and all the more so for other things. He goes on to cover ...

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) ...

I can't definitively give you his logic, but according to Bruchos 36b, If the flour is there to satisfy you then you always make a Mezonot on it (Kol SheYesh Bo). However, if the flour is there just to hold the food together, like bread-crumbs in a hamburger (or Schnitzel @Shmuel Brin), then it's a Shehakol. I guess Rav Belsky felt that the cookie-crumbs ...