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Birkat Hamazon – Part 1

  • Adler Lambert, Rivkah & Mendlowitz, Ariella
  • "Birkat Hamazon is the consummate bracha achrona, because while most of the food blessings were instituted by the Sages, Birkat Hamazon is a Torah-level obligation, based on Deuteronomy 8:10: 'You shall eat, and be satisfied, and bless.'"...
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Bracha Achrona – Introduction

  • Adler Lambert, Rivkah & Mendlowitz, Ariella
  • "The blessings we say before the meal are an expression of that gratitude. But after the meal, when you're [stuffed] that's when you specifically need to be reminded to express gratitude to God and deepen that connection....
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Holy Eating: Insights Into Tu B’Shevat

  • Schneider, Sarah Yehudit
  • "When we eat the many fruits associated with the Tree of Knowledge on Tu B’Shevat and do so with consciousness of our Creator, that in itself is a rectification of what happened in Garden of Eden."...
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Kabbalistic Tu B’Shvat Seder

  • Buxbaum, Yitzhak
  • The 15th of Shevat celebrates the beginning of a “new year” for trees....
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Getting practical: The six basic brachot said on food

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "The bracha that one says before eating or drinking is known as a bracha rishona (literally,'first blessing')."...
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Rosh Chodesh, new moon sliver in a blue sky

Start Again

  • Scheller, Rabbi Eli
  • "Kiddush Hachodesh (the sanctification of the new moon) was the very first commandment given to the Jewish nation as a whole…"...
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Text and Meaning – Deconstructing the basic components of a bracha.

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "The structure and texts of all brachot were formulated by the Sages of the Great Assembly (Anshei Knesset HaGedola), the authoritative rabbinic body during the Second Temple period."...
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What is a Bracha? – Post 5

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "Understanding the meaning behind these blessings and the power they possess can transform the mundane act of eating into a deeply spiritual experience."...
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What is a Bracha? – Post 4

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "Recognizing God's kindness and bringing blessing into the world – are inter-related."...
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What is a Bracha? – Post 3

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "Reciting a bracha opens a wellspring of blessing that flows down from the heavens."...
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What is a Bracha? – Post 2

  • Simmons, Rabbi Shraga
  • "Every bracha begins with the phrase 'Baruch Ata Ado-noy' – 'Blessed are You, God.' This expresses our will that God should be blessed....
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The Tenth of Tevet

  • Wein, Rabbi Berel
  • "The Tenth of Tevet marks the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylonia, and the beginning of the battle that ultimately destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon, and sent the Jews into the 70-year Babylonian Exile....
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