Blessings for Food

It's easier—and more rewarding—than you think!

All about the grace after meals.

Ritual Hand Washing Before Meals

The Netilat Yadayim practice and blessing.

Blessing food does not make it kosher, nor is food that has not been blessed necessarily unkosher.

These simple words mask a subtle theological statement about the primordial past and the perfected "world to come."

Can I say birkat hamazon on treyf food?

Texts, translations and transliterations.

What works for saying the blessings and "taking challah"?