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Bountiful Blessings with Rabbi Sariel Malitzky

One of the only Berachos that is sourced in the Torah, birchas hamazon (bentching) is full of our offering blessing and thanks to HaShem. Join as we learn its laws and deepen our understanding of its meaning.

Nine Days Special #3: Seuda Hamefseks; On the Floor, by Yourself, and if You Are Not Fasting

6 mins; August 12, 2024

Nine Days Special #2: Cutting a Sheital, Removing a Stain From Clothing and Polishing Shoes

4 mins; August 07, 2024

Nine Days Special #1: Clothing to and From the Cleaners

4 mins; August 05, 2024

Saying Shehechiyanu During The Three Week (Part 2)

4 mins; July 24, 2024

Saying Shehechiyanu During The Three Week (Part 1)

6 mins; July 24, 2024

Shiur #78: Tefilla as a Way to Connect

7 mins; July 22, 2024

Shiur #77: Do You Need to Recite a New Beracha When You Eat in Multiple Rooms?

5 mins; July 11, 2024

Special Guest - Evening of Torah and Chizuk With Rav Simcha Hochbaum of Chevron

87 hours 34 mins; June 19, 2024

We Better Make Sure to Daven for Those Who Are Struggling

8 mins; June 14, 2024

Shavuos Special #2: Did You Take a Nap on Erev Shavuos!

4 mins; June 06, 2024

Pre Shavuos Special #1: Birchas Hatorah If You Stay Up All Night

5 mins; June 05, 2024

Shiur #76: Reciting a Beracha on Food While Wearing Gloves

3 mins; May 29, 2024

Shiur #75: Holding the Food With Your Right Hand. What About a Lefty? How Does This Relate to Holding the Besamim During Havdalla?

4 mins; May 28, 2024

Shiur #74: Break Between the Beracha and Eating the Food

4 mins; May 27, 2024

Shiur #73: Saying the Wrong Beracha

4 mins; May 24, 2024

Shiur #72: Haodama, Haetz, Not Sure?

4 mins; May 21, 2024

Shiur #71: Beracha on Chocolate Covered Almonds, Strawberries, and Nuts and the Beracha on Treif Food if You Need to Eat It

6 mins; May 14, 2024

Shiur #70: Beracha on Medicine and Liquids You Drink to Take the Pill

5 mins; May 08, 2024

Shiur #69: Situation When You Don’t Recite a Beracha on Drinking Water

5 mins; May 07, 2024

Pesach Special #11: Putting Out 10 Pieces of Bread for Bedikas Chametz

6 mins; April 22, 2024

Pesach Special #10: Maror - How Sweet It Can Be!

4 mins; April 19, 2024

Pesach Special #9: Matzah - Must You Own Your Matzah?

7 mins; April 18, 2024

Pesach Special #8: The Difference Between the Chacham and the Rasha

4 mins; April 16, 2024

Pesach Special #7: The Marriage Through Matzah

5 mins; April 15, 2024

Pesach Special #6: Yachatz

4 mins; April 12, 2024

Pesach Special #5: Karpas - Should You Recline? What’s the Idea Behind Dipping?

4 mins; April 11, 2024

Pesach Special #4: Urchatz vs. Rachtza

6 mins; April 09, 2024

Pesach Special #3: Kadesh - Pouring Each Other’s Cup

5 mins; April 08, 2024

Pesach Special #2 - Making Bedikas Chametz Fun and Showing That Mitzvos Are Special

4 mins; April 04, 2024

Pesach Special #1: Cleaning Cars and Bedikas Chametz

5 mins; April 03, 2024

Purim Special #3: What Should We Be Thinking During the Beracha of Shehecheyanu

5 mins; March 14, 2024

Purim Special #2: The Ideal Time for Seudas Purim

5 mins; March 13, 2024

Purim Special #1: Must You Eat Meat at the Purim Seudah?

5 mins; March 12, 2024

Shiur #68: Beracha On Tea and Coffee

5 mins; March 01, 2024

Shiur #67: Beracha on Coconut Water Or Coconut Milk

4 mins; February 28, 2024

Shiur #66: Beracha on Orange Juice?

5 mins; February 27, 2024

Shiur #65: The Beracha on Mashed Potatoes

5 mins; February 21, 2024

Shiur #64: Beracha On Orange Peels

4 mins; February 20, 2024

Shiur #63: Pass the Oil

4 mins; February 19, 2024

Shiur #62: The Beracha on Sunflower, Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, and Watermelon Seeds

6 mins; February 16, 2024

Shiur #61: Froscato and Frose: What’s the Beracha on Frozen Wine Pops? What About a Grape Juice Slushy?

4 mins; February 13, 2024

Shiur #60: The Beracha On Cognac

4 mins; February 12, 2024

Shiur #59: Do You Recite a Beracha Because You Want to Eat or Do You Eat Because You Want to Recite Beracha?

4 mins; February 09, 2024

Shiur #58: Why I Will Begin Bentching On A Cup Of Wine

6 mins; February 07, 2024

Shiur #57: Bentching With a Cup of Wine

7 mins; February 06, 2024

Shiur #56: Mayim Acharonim: The Maskana

4 mins; February 05, 2024

Shiur #55: A Beautiful, Yet Small, Silver Cup for Mayim Acharonim

5 mins; February 01, 2024

Shiur #54: Mayim Acharonim: Reasons To Be Makpid

4 mins; January 26, 2024

Shiur #53: The Sanctity Of The Levi

6 mins; January 23, 2024

Shiur #52: Why Doesn’t the Kohen Always Lead the Zimmun? Should He? Are We Doing It Wrong?

5 mins; January 22, 2024

Shiur #51: Is There A Guest At A Restaurant Or At Your Parent’s House?

4 mins; January 17, 2024

Shiur #50: Why Some Don’t Say the Beracha of the Oreach?

5 mins; January 16, 2024

Shiur #49: Blessed by the Guest

4 mins; January 16, 2024

Shiur #48: Who Should Lead the Zimmun (When There Is No Baal Habayis)?

4 mins; January 15, 2024

Special Episode: Hagomel - Seeing the Good When Nature Struggles

42 mins; January 12, 2024

Shiur #47: But I’m Done and I Want to Bentch Now

5 mins; January 11, 2024

Shiur #46: Child’s Play: Zimun With a Child

4 mins; January 08, 2024

Simcha Special: Tachanun at Mincha on the Day of the Bris

5 mins; January 08, 2024

Shiur #45: From the River to the Sea: The Berachos We Recite on Seeing the Ocean and Other Beauties of Creation

40 mins; December 23, 2023

Shiur #44: Can Three Women Do a Zimun if There Are Any Men Present?

5 mins; December 22, 2023

Shiur #43: Zimmun for Three Women Who Ate Together

5 mins; December 21, 2023

Shiur #42: The Obligation of Zimun for Women (When With Men)

7 mins; December 20, 2023

Shiur #41: Zimun with an Onen and Avel

4 mins; December 18, 2023

Shiur #40: But I Didn’t Eat Anything!?

4 mins; December 18, 2023

Shiur #39: Zimun With a Convert and the Chanukah Beracha for a Convert

5 mins; December 05, 2023

Shiur #38: Have You Had a Drink?

3 mins; December 04, 2023

Shiur #37: Three Is a Crowd

4 mins; November 30, 2023

Shiur #36: Can the Gluten Free Individual Lead the Zimun?

4 mins; November 28, 2023

Shiur #35: Some Are Eating Meat and Some Are Eating Dairy: Can They Join for a Zimun?

5 mins; November 28, 2023

Shiur #34: Reciting a Beracha Before or After Eating Something Not Kosher

4 mins; November 24, 2023

Shiur #33 (Special Edition): Should the Released Hostages Who Are Children Bentch Gomel When They Are Released?

5 mins; November 22, 2023

Shiur #32: Whoops I Forgot About Zimun and Bentched

3 mins; November 21, 2023

Shiur #31: What to Say in Bentching When You Are Not in Your House or Any House

4 mins; November 19, 2023

Shiur #30: Zimun on the Run

4 mins; November 16, 2023

Shiur #29: Zimun at Group Meals and in Camp, Yeshiva, and Schools

4 mins; November 15, 2023

Shiur #28: Zimmun on Cake or Fruit?

2 mins; November 09, 2023

Shiur #27: When Was the Last Time You Stayed Until Bentching at a Bris or Wedding?

6 mins; November 08, 2023

Shiur #26: Who Are You Having Over?

3 mins; November 06, 2023

Shiur #25: The Advancement of the Knowledge of Women

4 mins; November 06, 2023

Shiur #24: Standing for Elokeinu

4 mins; November 03, 2023

Shiur #23: Zimun with Ten

5 mins; November 02, 2023

Shiur #22: Does Bentching Go Based on When I Ate or Based on When I’m Bentching? (Part 2)

5 mins; November 01, 2023

Shiur #21: Does Bentching Go Based on When I Ate or Based on When I’m Bentching? (Part 1)

5 mins; October 31, 2023

Shiur #20: If You Forget רצה or יעלה ויבא on Shabbos or Rosh Chodesh

5 mins; October 26, 2023

Shiur #19: The Beracha You Might Not Have Ever Said

4 mins; October 25, 2023

Shiur #18: Boneh Yerushalayim Amen

5 mins; October 24, 2023

Shiur #17: Migdol Vs. Magdil

5 mins; October 23, 2023

Shiur #16: Bentching for Women

5 mins; October 20, 2023

Shiur #15: Bentching Out Loud

3 mins; October 17, 2023

Shiur #14: How to Bentch if You Can’t Speak

5 mins; October 12, 2023

Shiur #13: Saying Berachos in Other Languages to Avoid Safek

5 mins; September 28, 2023

Shiur #12: Bentching in English

4 mins; September 27, 2023

Shiur #11: Saying Borei Nefashos When Drinking During a Run, While Playing Tennis, or While Slowly Sipping a Coffee While at the Desk

4 mins; September 21, 2023

Shiur #10: *Special Teshuva Edition*: Why are the laws of Teshuva not found in the Shulchan Aruch?

2 mins; September 18, 2023

Shiur #9: Marathons, Meals and Bentching at Long Weddings

3 mins; September 14, 2023

Shiur #8: The Great Kasha With Three Answers

5 mins; September 13, 2023

Shiur #7: The Spiritual Place

4 mins; September 12, 2023

Shiur #6: Dinner in the Kitchen and Bentch in the Den

5 mins; September 12, 2023

Shiur #5: I forgot to say a Beracha Acharona!

5 mins; September 10, 2023

Shiur #4: Intro to Must You Bentch Where You Ate?

5 mins; September 07, 2023

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