Adam's Torah
This podcast is recordings from classes given by Adam Sabzevari. There are episodes on the weekly Parasha and the Jewish holidays
There is also a series on the Sefer HaMitzvot, in which we go through the list of the Mitzvot.
We will learn the Sefer HaMitzvot HaKatzar (“Concise Book of Commandments”), written by Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim). The book is an abbreviated reworking of the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvot that only includes commandments applicable outside of Israel in the post-Temple era. ************************* Podcast Link: https://adamstorah.buzzsprout.com/
Adam's Torah
Positive #13 - To Recite a Blessing After Eating Food
In this episode, we learn positive mitzvah #13, which is to recite a blessing after eating food. This after-meal blessing is referred to as birkat hamazon.
- Structure of Birkat Hamazon
- Made up of four blessings:
- Hashem sustains everyone and everything
- Thanking Hashem for the land
- Praying for Yerushalayim and the Beit Hamikdash
- Declaring that Hashem is good and does good for others (this fourth blessing was added later in history, after we received access to the city of Beitar)
- Made up of four blessings:
- What foods require Birkat Hamazon?
- Bread
- Other foods require shorter after-blessings, depending on the type of food
- How much food must one eat to be required to recite Birkat Hamazon?
- About an olive size of bread, approximately one ounce
- Extension to Blessing on Food Prior to Eating
- The Sages extended this mitzvah of reciting a blessing to prior eating food, too.
- This extension is based on logic
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