Blessings

Food brachot, handwashing, Grace After Meals, Zimun, special blessings, Hagomel and after-blessings.

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Official questions

1. What bracha do we make on: banana, watermelon, French toast, liquor, pineapple, peanuts, cashews, rice (before and after)?

Your study note / CHECK: Banana — Ha’adamah. Watermelon — Ha’adamah. French toast — Hamotzi. Liquor — Shehakol. Pineapple — Ha’adamah. Peanuts — Ha’adamah. Cashews — Borei Pri Ha’etz. Rice — before Mezonot, after Borei Nefashot. The note calls rice “one of the 5 grains”; preserve that as a teacher-check point.

2. What blessings are said before eating bread/challah/matzah; wine/grape juice; tree fruit; ground produce; five grains; processed fruit/vegetables; and before smelling scents?

Your study note: Hamotzi; Borei Pri Hagafen; Borei Pri Ha’etz; Borei Pri Ha’adamah; Borei Minei Mezonot; regular blessing if processed item remains recognizable, otherwise Shehakol in the note; fragrances — Borei Minei Besamim.

3. When do we say Grace After Meals?

Your study note: After bread of at least a kezayit-sized amount; note says not later than 72 minutes.

4. When is washing hands required before eating?

Your study note: Before eating bread.

5. Why is Challah dipped in salt before being eaten?

Your study note: Reminds us of Temple service and salt used with offerings; table compared to altar.

6. Why do we refrain from speaking from handwashing until after Hamotzi and first bite?

Your study note: Keep attention on handwashing and avoid distraction/touching something unclean. If one speaks, note says wash again without bracha.

7. When is Zimun said for Grace After Meals?

Your study note: When three men have eaten and are benching together.

8. What is said upon putting on new clothes, buying a new house and hearing thunder?

Your study note: New clothes — note mentions Malbish Arumim. New house/major new item — Shehecheyanu. Thunder — “shekocho u’gvurato malei olam,” His power and strength fill the world.

9. What is Birkat Hagomel?

Your study note: Thanksgiving blessing after serious danger. Note lists sickness, crossing sea/desert, release from jail, surviving accident; recited around Torah reading at Shacharit.

10. What is the Yiddish word for praying?

Your study note: Daven.

11. What is the Yiddish word for blessing?

Your study note: Bench / benching.

12. What do we say if we accidentally recited the wrong blessing? List 2 situations.

Your study note: Full wrong/repeated blessing: “Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuto L’olam Va’ed.” If only “Baruch Atah Hashem” said: finish “lamdeini chukecha.”

13. What cannot be in a room when we make a blessing?

Your study note: Foul-smelling diaper/similar bad odor; note also mentions not making blessing near deceased person.

14. Under what conditions must we wash our hands before prayer?

Your study note: After toilet, marital relations, getting dirty, or sleeping.

15. What are 2 prerequisites for saying Grace After Meals?

Your study note: Bread and minimum kezayit amount eaten within required eating time; note also gives completion-time requirement.

16. What order should we keep in mind when saying food blessings?

Your study note: Hamotzi, Mezonot, Ha’etz, Ha’adamah, Shehakol.

17. What 3 conditions render food Mezonot?

Your study note / CHECK: From five grains (note also adds rice), cooked, and grain is main part rather than minor accompaniment.

18. When is the three-faceted blessing said?

Your study note: Al HaMichya after Mezonot; Al HaEtz after listed fruits of Israel; Al HaGefen after wine.

19. When is one required to say a blessing twice on the same food?

Your study note: When person clearly ended earlier eating/drinking intention and starts again, or leaves house and returns. Note says rule does not apply same way to bread and Mezonot.