Blessing on Food

If you were a granola bar about to be eaten, what would you have to celebrate?

Mindful eating begins by opening a channel. Tzvi Freeman works backwards, step by step, disclosing the thoughts behind a mindful blessing.

This class focuses on the principles related to the blessings recited before and after the consumption of food.

We recite a blessing before and after eating in acknowledgment of G-d for sustaining us.

Some stuff about the blessing on vegetables by Dina.

In this class we examine the biblical source offered for reciting blessings before consuming food, and thereby discover the principle of ‘Asmachta’.

In this class we probe the different reasons the Talmud presents for reciting a blessing before partaking of food and drink. Discover the principles of consecrated property as it relates to food blessings.

This class discusses the source and reasoning for reciting a blessing before partaking of food and drink.

What are the different categories of food blessings? When are they recited?