Questions tagged [bentching]
Questions about the the blessings of thanks recited after eating bread products. Hebrew: Bircat Hamazon. Also known as Grace After Meals.
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As the מזמן, should I say "ברשות אבי מורי" before "סבי מורי" or the other way around?
When eating with my parents at my my grandparents' (father's parents) house, if I am asked to be מזמן, should I say “ברשות אבי מורי וסבי מורי„ or “ברושת סבי מורי ואבי מורי„?
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Excluding water from blessing after food
One common scenario is for someone to make a berakha on water at some point in the morning and to drink the water throughout the day. Suppose during the day, the person decides to have a snack whose ...
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(How) Should the wife of the ba'al habayit (homeowner) be mentioned in the call to recite grace after meals
As part of leading birkat hamazon (grace after meals) there is a custom for the leader to mention he has been given permission to lead by the male homeowner.
I am wondering if there is any discussion ...
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Shir HaMa'aloth or 'Al Naharoth Bavel on Rosh Hodesh Av?
When Bentching on Rosh Hodesh Av, do you say Shir HaMa'aloth for Rosh Hodesh or 'Al Naharoth Bavel for the Nine Days?
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Cut-off birkat hamazon
As a complement to this question on Shortened Birkat Hamazon, I would like to better understand the practice I saw of stopping Birkat Hamazon after the fourth blessing on Shabbat and not saying the ...
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Sofek in Bircas HaTorah -- why not say all of the brachas?
The M"B brings in the beginning of Siman 47 from the Shagas Aryeh (Siman 24-25) that if one is in sofek (doubt) if they said Bircas HaTorah then they should go back and say the bracha however only the ...
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Why, in זימון, is it customary to change from "רבותי נברך" to "ברשות מרנן ורבנן ורבותי"?
Why, at the beginning of ברכת הזימון is it comon custom that the leader opens with "רבותי נברך" and later he continues with "ברשות מרנן ורבנן ורבותי" .
Why, at the beginning does he only address ...
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Ending stanza in Birkat HaMazon
In some Sephardic/Edut HaMizrach siddurim, there is a sentence as one concludes that one reads "ברוך הזן, ברוך שולחן, ברוך משה בן עמרם". Hebrew Wikipedia records it as the custom of the Kurdistan ...
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In what sense will the world to come be a Shabbat?
In Birkat Hamazon, we (Ashkenazim...I haven't looked at other texts) add a line on Shabbat, "הַרָחֲמָן הוּא יַנְחִילֵנוּ יוֹם שֶׁכֻּלוֹ שַׁבָּת וּמְנוּחָה לְחַיֵּי הָעוֹלָמִים" which translates to "...
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Saying Ritzei after Shekiyah
HoRav Yisroel Belsky Shlit"a (see Mishna Berurah 299:1) permits one to eat סעודת שלישית until 20 minutes after Shekiyah. Would someone still be able to say רצה if he started eating after Shkekiyah or ...
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Why a different list and different order in על הנסים and in הנרות הללו?
On Chanuka, we thank God in the amida (sh'mone esre) and grace after meals
ועל הנסים ועל הפרקן ועל הגבורות ועל התשועות ועל הנפלאות ועל הנחמות ועל המלחמות שעשית לאבותינו בימים ההם בזמן הזה
for the ...
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Standing for Grace after Meals to concentrate better?
I have seen someone choose to learn standing up rather than sitting because he was tired. He felt he could stay awake better in a standing position.
When it comes to Grace after Meals, the SO O.Ch. ...
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Why is “נא” in parenthesis in birkas hamazon?
I bentch using a regular Ashkenaz bentcher. In most of them, the word after “Rachem” is Na but it’s in parenthesis. I think I’ve also seen the word omitted occasionally.
I see the Shulchan Aruch 188:4 ...
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Al hamichya in different location when continued eating rice but started with cake
If someone start eating cake in one location he/she can make על המחיה in a totally different location (from which the first cannot be seen) if one continues eating there.
Does the food that is ...
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Should we say Al naharos bavel during Nissan?
There is a popular idea to not say Al Naharos Bavel before Birtkat HaMazon on days when tachnun is not said (see here). Does that apply to all of Nissan?
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Grace after meals - mentioning one parents/spouse if no longer alive
In the bensching (grace after meals/birkat hamazon) we have the following verse among the הרחמן's:
הרחמן הוא יברך את אבי מורי בעל הבית הזה ואת אמי מורתי בעלת הבית הזה אותם ואת ביתם ואת זרעם ואת כל ...
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Bracha Acharona after Hesech HaDaas
When eating a bread meal one makes the decision to end the meal, clears the table but then decides to continue eating. Question: Does this constitute Hesech HaDaas?
And if so, when saying a bracha ...
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What is the minimum text of birkat hamazon one needs to say to be yotze?
Let's say you're in the army or something and need to bench quickly and be on your way. Is there a "havineinu" equivalent for benching (beyond just stopping after the fourth bracha) that you could use ...
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Can a shiur Torah prolong the 72 minute wait to bentch?
After completing a meal a person has 72 minutes (according to some opinions) to bentch. Once this time has passed he lost his opportunity.
Say that during a meal the rav gives a shiur or you're in ...
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Birkat haMazon (Grace after Meals) during Sukkot outside the sukkah
Since during Sukkot holiday one can have a meal with bread only in sukkah (i.e., only the sukkah space could be the one that will require you to say birkat hamazon, to be kovea seudah), if one ate in ...
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The principle of makom as it pertains to bentching
Gemara brachos records the dispute regarding one who forgets to make birkat hamazon. One shittah says you should return to the location he ate before making the bracha. How specifically does this ...
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Mayim Achronim according to the Rama
The Rama in his Darkei Moshe writes that we pasken like Tosfos that today mayim achronim is not necessary.
However, The Mechaber 181:10 writes that there is an opinion who holds we don't do mayim ...
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Why don't we say Al Hanisim on other days?
We insert Al Hanisim on Purim and Channukah and that's fine -- each holiday is marked by a miracle. But why is its use limited to those days? Why don't we add it in to bentching and davening on Pesach ...
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P'nei Eretz Yisrael, P'nei Shabbat Kodesh?
Once I was in the land of Israel (in Beit Shemesh), and the mazmin was leading birkat hamazon. He said birshut maranan verabanan verabotai, birshut hakohanim, and birshut p'nei eretz yisrael. Is ...
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Explanation of this verse in Psalm 137
אַשְׁרֵ֤י שֶׁיֹּאחֵ֓ז וְנִפֵּ֬ץ אֶֽת־עֹ֝לָלַ֗יִךְ אֶל־הַסָּֽלַע׃
A blessing on him who seizes your babies and dashes them against the rocks!
Psalms 137:9
This verse doesn't sit well with me... Is ...
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Date rebuilding Jerusalem appeared in birkas hamazon and me'en shalosh?
Do the references to rebuilding Jerusalem indicate when the birkas hamazon and me'en shalosh were first written, or were these references added at some point to existing brachot?
Do we know when the ...
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What is the reason al pi sod for saying migdol in bentching on Chol HaMoed?
The Ben Ish Chai Chukas (1:19) writes
בארבע סעודות שבת וכן ביום טוב וחול המועד וראש חודש אומרים מגדול בו"ו,
וכתב בחסד לאלפים בשם הרב רבי דוד פאדרו ז"ל שגם בסעודת מילה ראוי לומר
מגדול בוא&...
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Why say bircat hamazon instead of plainly thanking HaShem for the food?
A niece asked me why do we need to say bircat hamazon which is lengthy and with words we don’t understand instead of just saying in English something along the long the lines of “thank you HaShem for ...
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Source for Rav Shach story (bentsching from a book from age 100)
In Torah Tidbits, issue 1372, Rabbi Shalom Rosner wrote, in part:
When Rav Shach turned 100, he told his students that he was going to accept upon himself a new resolution. The students were ...
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Forgot if said birkas hamazon [bentching]
I was thinking that you would have to say it, since it's sofek d'oraisah.
But then you there is a sofek d'oraisah of bracha l'vatallah and we have a rule of sofek brochos l'kullah.
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Halachic definition of "full" (sated)
I was reading this:
After the fact (if one ate between 8 Kezayitim and a definite meal), if one is not full make Al HaMichya and if one is full make Birkat HaMazon, yet, in such a case it’s ...
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Conservative Jews saying "amen" instead of saying Harachamans
I've noticed that among Conservative Jews, it seems to be a common practice that one person recites the harachamans after Birkat Hamazon and others are silent and only respond "amen". Now, after one ...
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Definition of "together" regarding zimmun
Brachot 45a says that 3 people who ate "as one" are required to do zimmun ("Rabbotai Nevarech", etc.)
What constitutes "together"? For example, can any of these be done?
There is a rule that if the ...
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