Blessings for Food

Shabbat

How to Host Shabbat Dinner

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

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What is Birkat Hamazon, or Benching?

All about the grace after meals.

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Ritual Hand Washing Before Meals

The Netilat Yadayim practice and blessing.

Is Kosher Food Blessed by a Rabbi?

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

Hamotzi: The Deeper Significance of the Blessing over Bread

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

Blessings for Food & Drink

Texts, translations and transliterations.

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