Bracha on food
Just a quick thought! The gemorah mentions that that anybody who gets benefit without making a bracha first its like he committed Meila. The concept is that its like somebody taking something without recognizing or thanking the owner first. If that is the case, if a person makes a bracha on food and doesnt finish it, why should he have to make another bracha? For example, if you eat Challah on Shabbos and dont finish it and want to make French Toast sunday morning with the leftovers, why would you have to make another bracha? You have already thanked Hashem for the food?
posted by Anonymous @ 4:39 PM
2 Comments:
It could be that the bracha is only chal on that which you will eventually eat. If you didn't eat it then l'maphreia it showed that the bracha was not going on that. So before you eat the french toast you need to ask Hashem for permission.
The mei'la concept for brachot is not the only basis for the bracha obligation-- as the succeeding baraitot point out, "kol ha'neheneh min ha'olam ha'zeh b'lo bracha, k'ilu nehene mi'kodshei shamayim" or "k'iylu gozel lha'kadisg baruch hu u'kneset yisrael." Implicit in these baraitot is the notion that bracha does not merely serve as a way to redeem the food you are about to eat from Hashem's possession and thus avoid me'ila, but is being made as one prepares to be "nehene," that is, to enjoy. It is a recognition that whatever we enjoy, at the time we prepare to enjoy it, is a gift to us from Hashem. Under this view, it is hardly a surprise that one must make a new bracha even if one has already made a bracha on a piece of food that he did not eat earlier; one must make a bracha each time one is about to enjoy food.
Morrie
Post a Comment
<< Home