According to Halacha, do drinks, such as for example pomegranate juice, made from the 7 species have the same Berakha of when you eat the 7 species or no? The reason I ask is because for example you don’t bentch for liquor, would this be similar or no? Same goes for olive oil, and other liquid products derived from the seven different species.
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1Are you talking about an after blessing? That's the only one different for the seven species– Double AA ♦Commented Dec 29, 2023 at 18:25
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The only fruit juice treated specially is grape juice/wine which has its own before/after blessing. Other fruit juices (incl. other 7 species) have a sheakol/borei nefashot. There are some distinctions with olive oil if you drink it for its medicinal properties (where some believe one says ha-eitz) but it is rarely practically relevant– mblochCommented Dec 31, 2023 at 4:23
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The bracha over fruit or vegetable juice is shehakol rather than pri ha'atz or pri ha'adamah. This is the subject of detailed discussion in Gemara Berachot 35b. The answer is the same where the fruit is one of the seven species e.g. pomegranate.
Wine (and grape juice) is an exception and gets the special bracha (pri ha'gafen) again for reasons spelled out in Berachot 35b relating to the special importance of wine.
If the pre-bracha is shehakol, the after bracha is borei nefashot.
After saying the pre-bracha pri ha'gafen for wine or grape juice, "al ha'gefen" is recited as the after bracha.
After saying the pre-bracha pri ha'etz over fruit, the after bracha is "al ha'etz" for grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates which are among the seven species but the after bracha is borei nefashot for other fruit.
Olive oil is also the subject of discussion on Berachot 35b, the complexities of that discussion do not change the answer given above.
