Ep. 868. How Do We Handle the Phrases That One Is Supposed to Fill In at the End of the ברכה אחת מעין שלוש?
7 mins; August 07, 2024
Ep. 867. What Is the Correct Bracha to Make on Fruits That Are Part of the שבעת המינים from Eretz Yisroel?
8 mins; August 06, 2024
Ep. 866. As Far as Bentching Goes, How Do We Handle It If One Has to Bentch Outside (e.g., Park, Yard)?
9 mins; August 05, 2024
Ep. 865. What Is the Halacha if One Mixed Up a "Boreh Nefashos" with an "Al HaMichya"?
8 mins; August 04, 2024
Ep. 864. Eating Plain Flour of the Five Grains: What Is the Correct Bracha? Eating a Complete Grape.
8 mins; August 03, 2024
Ep. 863. If One Went Outside Before They Ate a Full K'zayis of Their Fruit, When They Come Back In They Ate the Rest of the K'zayis All Under a 4-Minute Period: Is It Still Good (for an After Bracha)?
7 mins; August 01, 2024
Ep. 862. If One Makes a Bracha on Fruit in the Middle of a Meal When They Washed for Bread and Then They Went Out: When They Come Back, Do They Need a New Bracha?
7 mins; July 31, 2024
Ep. 861. When One Eats Cake Together with a Coffee and They Now Have to Leave the Building: When They Come Back, Do They Need a New Bracha on the Coffee?
6 mins; July 30, 2024
Ep. 860. What Is the Halacha with שנוי מקום (a Halachic Change of Place) When One Goes into the Backyard That Is Fenced In: Leaving One's House and Coming Back Right Away
7 mins; July 29, 2024
Ep. 859. Some Important Halachas of Using Water That Was Used for Something Else to Wash One's Hands for Bread
7 mins; July 28, 2024
Ep. 858. What Is the Halacha if One Is Continuously Eating One Item as They Leave the House (שינוי מקום)?
9 mins; July 27, 2024
Ep. 857. If One Is Sucking on a Candy, Mint, or Chewing Gum When Leaving the House, Do They Need a New Brocha?
6 mins; July 25, 2024
Ep. 856. When There Is No שינוי מקום (a halachic change of place): Ensuring One Ate a K'ZAYIS Before Leaving
7 mins; July 24, 2024
Ep. 855. The Correct Brocha on Potato Soups, Cream of Potato Soup, Onion Soup, Eating Plain Onions, and Noodle Soup.
Ep. 853. The Proper Brocha to Make on Various Types of Chicken Soups.
10 mins; July 21, 2024
Ep. 852. Various Types of Soups and the Correct Brocha: Tomato Soup, Split Pea Soup, Cabbage Soup, Mushroom Soup, Mushroom and Barley Soup
7 mins; July 20, 2024
Ep. 851. The Proper BROCHA for Matzoh Meal Mix When Eaten Plain.
9 mins; July 18, 2024
Ep. 850. The Correct BROCHA on Instant Soups and Vegetable Soups.
6 mins; July 17, 2024
Ep. 849. What Is the Correct Brocha to Make on Fruit Soups?
7 mins; July 16, 2024
Ep. 848. What Do We Call a Drink When There Is Flour from One of the Five Grains in the Food? (When Is It Considered Drinkable?) E.g., Farina, Oatmeal, etc.
6 mins; July 15, 2024
Ep. 847. Barley Soup, Soup with Noodles – the Correct Brocha.
8 mins; July 14, 2024
Ep. 846. The Difference Between the Bracha Before Eating the Food and After Eating the Food, in Conjunction with the Halachas of "Shinu Makom" (Change of Place).
8 mins; July 13, 2024
Ep. 845. If One Is Eating Grapes Together with Other Types of Fruits (e.g., Apples, Oranges, etc.), How Do We Handle the After Brocha?
7 mins; July 11, 2024
Ep. 844. What Is the Halacha If One Put Flour from One of the Five Grains into a Drink? The Flour in the Drink Is There for Sustenance and Taste.
7 mins; July 10, 2024
Ep. 843. If One Made an "Al Hamichya" on Rice, What Is the Halacha?
8 mins; July 09, 2024
Ep. 842. If One Made a Shehakol on Something, When Do We Say That It Covers Everything That Is in Front of You?
8 mins; July 08, 2024
Ep. 841. Understanding the Difference Between Cake with Filling and Cake without Filling Regarding the After Brochoh
10 mins; July 07, 2024
Ep. 840. What Is The Halacha If One Drinks A Little Bit Wine And A Little Bit Of Some Other Drink, Do They Make An "After Brochoh"?
7 mins; July 06, 2024
Ep. 839. The Brochoh on Wine or Grape Juice Covers Drinks In Front of You at the Time of the Brochoh (Both the First Brochoh and After Brochoh). The Amount One Has to Drink for That to Happen
8 mins; July 04, 2024
Ep. 838. Why Do Other Types of Grains (Not Rice or the Five Grains, e.g., Oats, Wheat, etc.) Become Shehakol When Ground Up?
7 mins; July 03, 2024
Ep. 837. What Would Be The Correct Brochoh On A Muffin Or Cake Made Out Of Whole Grain Oats?
7 mins; July 02, 2024
Ep. 836. Final Important Facts To Know About Cereals And Their "After Brochoh"
10 mins; July 01, 2024
Ep. 835. What Is The Correct Bracha To Make On Muffins Or Cake That Is Baked And Made Out Of Whole Grains?
11 mins; June 30, 2024
Ep. 834. Important Considerations Regarding Fruits in Cereal.
7 mins; June 29, 2024
Ep. 833. The Same Cereal by the Same Company Could Sometimes Be Made in Different Ways. Understanding the Concept: Some Cereals Are Split Equally Between Two Different Ingredients.
8 mins; June 27, 2024
Ep. 832. What Is the Halacha if the Oat Flour or Wheat Flour Is Not the Main Ingredient? Cereal Made from Rice Flour. Cereal from Processed Rice (e.g., Kellogg's Rice Krispies and Post Fruity Pebbles).
7 mins; June 26, 2024
Ep. 831. Many Very Important Details in Reference to the After Brocha on Cereals Made from One of the Five Grains.
12 mins; June 25, 2024
Ep. 830. What Is the Proper After Brocha to Make on Cereals Made from One of the Five Grains Ground Up (e.g., Cheerios)?
8 mins; June 24, 2024
Ep. 829. What Is the Halacha if One Is Eating a Pie (e.g., Apple Pie, Cherry Pie) and They Would Like to Eat Only the Inside (e.g., the Apples)?
10 mins; June 23, 2024
Ep. 828. What Is the Proper After Brocha to Make on Morning Cereals Made from Whole Grains (e.g., Sugar Crisp, Golden Crisps, Puffed Wheat, etc.)?
11 mins; June 22, 2024
Ep. 827. What Is the Halacha When One Eats a Whole Grain (in Conjunction with Breakfast Cereals)?
8 mins; June 20, 2024
Ep. 826. What Is the Correct Brocha to Make on Rice Flour?
8 mins; June 19, 2024
Ep. 825. What Is the Correct Brocha to Make on Schnitzel or Fried Fish When It Is Covered with Corn Flakes Crumbs?
7 mins; June 18, 2024
Ep. 824. What Is the Halacha if One Is Eating Schnitzel or Fried Fish When the Outside Coating Is Made from Regular Flour, and One Would Like to Eat the Outside Coating Separately?
9 mins; June 17, 2024
Ep. 823. Important Information in Reference to Granola Bars
6 mins; June 16, 2024
Ep. 822. How Do We Understand Three Different Categories of the Five Grains?
8 mins; June 15, 2024
Ep. 821. Understanding Some of the Halachas Pertaining to Morning Cereals.
8 mins; June 13, 2024
Ep. 820. What Is the Proper Procedure When One Would Like to Have a Candy, Mint, or Gum After Their Food or Drink?
9 mins; June 10, 2024
Ep. 819. When Flour of the Five Grains Is Put into a Drink (What Is the Halacha). The Brocha on Licorice, Gefilte Fish, etc.
9 mins; June 09, 2024
Ep. 818. Very important review on the halachas of putting flour from the five grains into a food (What is the proper BROCHA).
8 mins; June 08, 2024
Ep. 817. Why Is the Bracha on the Five Grains When They Are Ground Up and Made into a Food Different Than the Five Fruits and the Various Different Foods?
10 mins; June 06, 2024
Ep. 816. Understanding the Differentiation Between the Five Fruits and the Five Grains, Which Have Various Types of Brachos.
9 mins; June 05, 2024
Ep. 815. Understanding the Importance of Concentrating on the Words and Not Walking Around While Making a Brocha.
7 mins; June 04, 2024
Ep. 814. Building Our Connection Through Boreh Nefashot to Hashem.
7 mins; June 03, 2024
Ep. 813. Understanding the Breakdown of the Bracha Known as מעין שלש. (After Blessing Made on the Five Grains, Wine, and Certain Types of Fruits)
11 mins; June 02, 2024
Ep. 812. The Proper Brocha for a Food Which Was Cooked in a Pot Together with One of the Five Grains.
7 mins; June 01, 2024
Ep. 811. Introduction to the Bracha of ברכה אחת מעין שלש (After Blessing Made on Certain Types of Fruits, Grains, Wine, etc.)
8 mins; May 30, 2024
Ep. 810. What Is the Halacha When One Is Eating a Mixture of Ingredients in Their Food (e.g., One Did Not Eat Enough for an Al Hamichya When Eating Wheat Flour Mixed with Other Ingredients)? Do We Make a Borei Nefashot?
9 mins; May 29, 2024
Ep. 809. What is the halacha if one mixed up the various differences after Brachos (e.g., one made an Al Hamichya instead of Borei Nefashot)?
8 mins; May 28, 2024
Ep. 808. An Important Review of a Few Halachos in "בורא נפשות" (Borei Nefoshos)
11 mins; May 27, 2024
Ep. 807. If Someone Forgot to Make a בורא נפשות (Borei Nefoshos) and a Short While After They Will Eat Bread, Once They Bentch, Do They Still Have to Make a בורא נפשות (Borei Nefoshos)?
7 mins; May 26, 2024
Ep. 806. Does the Concept of שינוי מקום (Shinui Makom, a Halachic Change of Place) Apply to the Brocho of "בורא נפשות" (Borei Nefoshos)?
8 mins; May 25, 2024
Ep. 805. What Is the Halacha if One Had in Mind to Drink Water and Then Coffee, but They Forgot and Made a בורא נפשות (Borei Nefoshos) in the Middle? Does One Now Have to Make a New Brocho of Shehakol?
10 mins; May 23, 2024
Ep. 804. Understanding What the Brocho of "בורא נפשות" (Borei Nefoshos) Is All About
9 mins; May 22, 2024
Ep. 803. In the After Brocho of "בורא נפשות" (Borei Nefoshos), Is One Allowed to Put Together Two Foods or a Drink with a Food to Have the Proper Shiur?
8 mins; May 21, 2024
Ep. 802. Various Basic Halachos of the Brocho of "בורא נפשות" (Borei Nefoshos)
8 mins; May 20, 2024
Ep. 801. Understanding the Basics of the Bracha of "Borei Nefashot"-בורא נפשות (Blessing for Sustenance)
7 mins; May 19, 2024
Ep. 800. How to Work with Sucking on a Candy, Mint, Chewing Gum, etc. When One Is Leaving Their House.
7 mins; May 18, 2024
Ep. 799. The "Very Important" Halacha of Not Doing Anything While Making Brachos or Davening.
9 mins; May 16, 2024
Ep. 798. Is Sitting Required When Making Brachos?
9 mins; May 15, 2024
Ep. 797. Does One Have to Sit When Making Various Brachos?
9 mins; May 14, 2024
Ep. 796. What Is the Halacha If One Spoke Out at Any Point During the Washing Process (for Bread), e.g., Do They Have to Rewash, Do They Need Another Brocha, etc.?
9 mins; May 13, 2024
Ep. 795. Does One Have to Repeat a Brocha if They Did Some Sort of Action in the Middle, e.g., Snapping One's Fingers, Making Signs with Their Eyes, etc.?
7 mins; May 12, 2024
Ep. 794. What Is the Halacha if One Took a Bite of Some Other Food Before the Bread?
8 mins; May 11, 2024
Ep. 793. If One Took a Bite of Some Other Food First Before They Took a Bite of Their Bread After They Made the Brocha of Hamotzi, Would That Be Considered a Hefsek (הפסק) (Halachic Interruption)?
8 mins; May 09, 2024
Ep. 792. How to work with a CHILD when teaching the child the BROCHA.
8 mins; May 08, 2024
Ep. 791. When someone makes KIDDUSH or HAVDALA one has to be careful to drink before talking. Making KIDDUSH for someone else and not drinking himself.
6 mins; May 07, 2024
Ep. 790. What is the halacha if the head of the household making the HAMOTZI for everyone spoke out before taking his first bite.
9 mins; May 06, 2024
Ep. 789. What is the halacha if one answered "AMEN" to someone else's BRACHO before they took a bite when they were yotza with someone else's BRACHO.
10 mins; May 05, 2024
Ep. 788. What is the halacha if the head of the household who is making the HAMOTZI spoke out before the first bite while everybody else was listening to his brocha.
8 mins; May 04, 2024
Ep. 787. What is the halacha if one made an after brocha of BOREI NEFOSHOS or AL HAMICHYA instead of BENCHING.
7 mins; May 02, 2024
Ep. 786. What type of preparations for the meal are allowed to be done between the washing process for bread and the brocha of HAMOTZI.
8 mins; May 01, 2024
Ep. 785. What and when should one be careful with before they actually eat a K'ZAYIS of bread.
10 mins; April 30, 2024
Ep. 784. What are some of the various different reasons why one should eat a K'ZAYIS of bread before doing anything else or even talking out.
7 mins; April 27, 2024
Ep. 783. What is considered swallowing the first bite when it comes to a candy, gum, mint, etc.
7 mins; April 25, 2024
Ep. 782. Is one allowed to answer אמן before they swallow the first bite.
8 mins; April 24, 2024
Ep. 781. One should not feed their animals from the original piece of challah or bread on which they made a HAMOTZI
8 mins; April 21, 2024
Ep. 780. One should try to eat a K'ZAYIS of the original bread on which they made the BRACHO before they eat other bread.
8 mins; April 20, 2024
Ep. 779. Should the head of the household first take a bite from his challah (on Shabbos) or should he first give everyone their piece.
9 mins; April 18, 2024
Ep. 778. When is one allowed to eat from their piece of challah (e.g., Shabbos) before the head of the household.
9 mins; April 17, 2024
Ep. 777. Is one allowed to take a bite from their piece of challah before the head of the household who made the BRACHO.
8 mins; April 16, 2024
Ep. 776. What is the proper way to train a child in making BRACHOS.
8 mins; April 15, 2024
Ep. 775. The head of the household making the brocha of HAMOTZI has to wait for everyone to finish saying אמן.
8 mins; April 14, 2024
Ep. 774. What types of food would be included in the original BROCHA of HAMOTZI even though the food is presently not here.
8 mins; April 13, 2024
Ep. 773. Various situations where one is allowed to make a BRACHO for someone else, even though they are not going to be eating themselves.
9 mins; April 11, 2024
Ep. 772. Are there times when one could make a BRACHO for someone else even though they are not going to be eating themselves.
8 mins; April 10, 2024
Ep. 771. How do we understand the difference between ברכת הנהנין (a brocha for pleasure) and ברכת המצוות (a bracha on a mitzvah).
8 mins; April 09, 2024
Ep. 770. Does the person who is serving the food have to be sitting when hearing the HAMOTZI.
7 mins; April 08, 2024
Ep. 769. Could one person make the HAMOTZI for many people sitting at many tables.
