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.

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

The textual formula for blessings contains some consistent features that are easy to learn.

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

This four-part Talmud series will be exploring and analyzing the sixth chapter of tractate Berachot, focusing on the principles related to the recitation of blessings before and after the consumption of food.

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’.