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What is the proper beracha for a mandarin chicken salad?
According to Halacha, what is the proper beracha to recite on a mandarin chicken salad? Is it Shehakol, Ha'etz, Ha’adamah, or something else?
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Beracha on chocolate covered raisins [duplicate]
According to Halacha what is the proper beracha on chocolate covered raisins? Is it shehakol, haetz, or something else?
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What is the proper beracha on boba
According to Halacha, what is the proper beracha when drinking boba with boba balls? Is it shehakol or something else?
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A medicinal drink turning into a pleasure drink mid-guzzle
I am not, to my knowledge, thirsty, but I need to take a pill with water, so I do so without a beracha (see Shulchan Aruch OC 204:7). As I swallow the pill, I realise that I am enjoying the water, and ...
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Is a Shehakol blessing required when drinking water in order to not become thirsty?
The Sulchan Aruch in Orach Chayim 204:7 rules:
השותה מים לצמאו מברך שהכל ולאחריו בנ"ר אבל אם חנקתיה אומצא ושותה מים להעביר האומצא אינו מברך לא לפניו ולא לאחריו:
Whomever drinks water to quench ...
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Does adding a different liquid to a pre-existing drink require a new Shehakol?
Suppose one makes a "shehakol" on the water, and doesn't have in mind any other drinks.
When there's a third of the glass left, the person refills the glass with seltzer/soda (the glass is now 1/3 ...
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What Bracha do you make on an acai bowl?
What Bracha do you make on an acai bowl?
These bowls usually contain yogurt, berries, and granola.
Here is a link for reference: Acai Bowl
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Can a machsheva be a bracha levatala in specific circumstances?
According to Chacham Ovadia's chiddush, if you already hold liquid in your mouth, and remembered you forgot to say Shehakol, you may "think" the bracha with the liquid in your mouth, and this bracha ...
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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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Do you need to eat a kezayis of the ikar to make a bracha acharona necessitated by the ikar?
Say you're eating a mixture of something requiring a mezonot blessing mixed with something requiring a shechakol blessing. By the rules of ikar and tafel you would just say a mezonot on the entire ...
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What's the bracha on mozzarella sticks?
Do the breadcrumbs on mozzarella sticks require that you wash or at least say mezonot or do we say that it's only used as a cooking agent and therefore you would make a shehakol on the cheese?
Is ...
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What blessing(s) to make on milk's favorite cookie (Oreo's)?
Oreo cookies are wonderfilled things.
What blessing(s) should one make on Oreo cookies?
As shown below, an Oreo cookie is made of two parts: the wafer part of the cookie, which by itself is a ...
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