Questions about the the blessings of thanks recited after eating bread products. Hebrew: Bircat Hamazon. Also known as Grace After Meals.
Questions tagged [bentching]
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Bentching in Yeshiva, a restaurant or other Public areas
In a regular bentching a child would say "ES AVI MORI BAL HABAYIS HAZEH" or in your own home "OSI V'ES ISHTI/BALI" what about a bachur in a Yeshiva dining room, or a person in a restaurant or a non Jewish college cafeteria?
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Blessing after bread when eating alone
When I am eating a meal alone and that meal includes bread what parts of the Birkat Hamazon do I pray? Which parts do I exclude? And please be specific. (I use the Schottenstein Artscroll siddur hachol.)
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What is the history of “Poseach et Yadecha” in birkas HaMazon?
When it comes to the history of the nusach of the first Bracha of Birkas Hamazon, where do we find the first source of this pasuk being within it? Are there earlier sources that don’t mention it?
I am looking for early sources that present the…
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Bentching at a Melave Malka
Why do most Ashkenazim who wash for bread for the Melave Malka say Shir Hamaalot and Migdol (instead of Magdil) during Bentching at a Melave Malka Motzei Shabbos?
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Can you mezamen with people who aren’t bentching?
If you’re sitting 3 people and you all ate bread, you have to do zimun. Does it matter though if the other 2 people won’t be bentching (in other words they’re not so frum and don’t care about berachot). So are you allowed to do zimun, which is a…
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Saying Bircat Hamazon after the end of Shabbat
good afternoon.
In my question book for the giur I found the following question ...
If you eat the third meal and the time for Shabbat has already passed, do you still say the additions of Shabbat to Bircat Hamazon?
(Asked for clearification ... I…
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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 the middle of listening to an mp3 shiur or a video…
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Sinning from Joy
Berachot 46 tells us that the guest blesses his host: "may no thought of sin, iniquity, or transgression stand before him or before us
from now and for evermore".
I remember seeing that this is because joy from party at times can lead to sin - so…
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Birchat hamazon: Thanking Gd for feeding all when there is hunger?
The first bracha of the birchat hamzaon says, in part, "Who nourishes the entire world" ... "He provides food for all flesh" ... "we have never lacked and we will never lack food forever". The second bracha has similar thoughts, "and for the…
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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.
Anyone have sources for this sheillah.
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Why no singular in birchat hamazon for "ours and all that is ours"?
Near the end of the birchat hamazon there is alternate wording for the beginning of a sentence for eating at your own table, or that of another person, but the end of that sentence is always in the plural (see quote below), at least in almost all…
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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 majority (2 out of 3) are ready to bench, the 3rd…
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Why no singular when referring to one parent in the birchat hamazon?
Near the end of the birchat hamazon there is wording for a sentence for eating at the table of one's parents. (See the left side of the quote below). That sentence refers to "them, their house, their family, and all that is theirs". But some…
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