Food That Comes During a Meal

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Foods brought during a meal

General rule

  1. All foods that are brought to accompany bread or fill one’s appetite is covered by the Bracha HaMotzei on the bread and doesn’t require it’s own Bracha is eaten during the meal. [1]
  2. If someone sent foods to a friend and the food arrived during the meal, Sephardim hold that he food requires a new Bracha, whereas Ashkenazim hold that no new Bracha is needed. [2]

Drinks

  1. If one has wine or grape juice, one must make it’s own Bracha even if it is drunk during the meal. [3]
  2. If one made Hagefen and drank a Melo Lugmav (cheekful), all other drinks are exempt from making a Bracha during the meal. [4] However, if one just heard Kiddish and didn’t drink wine or grape juice immediately, one must make a Bracha on wine or grape that one drinks during the meal. [5]
  3. One doesn’t make a Bracha on drinks during a meal as drinks are drunk because of the food. [6] However, it’s preferable to cover drinks by having wine and make a Bracha on wine and it’ll cover all other drinks. [7] Some Sephardim have a minhag to drink water before the meal (less than a kezayit) and the Bracha on that will cover the other drinks. [8]
  4. An alcoholic drink doesn’t require a Bracha is drunk during the meal, however, if one drink it’s at the end of the meal before Birkat HaMazon, one should make a Bracha. [9]
  5. Coffee and tea at the end of the meal don’t require a Bracha. However, it’s preferable to cover these drinks by having another food that certainly requires a Bracha during the meal (such as sugar by itself). [10]

Fruit

  1. A cooked dish made from fruit and is served as part of the main meal doesn’t require it’s own Bracha. For example, fruit soup, fruit salad, fruits mixed with chicken or meat, and fruit blintzes don’t require a Bracha during a meal. [11]
  2. Fruits served as an appetizer requires a separate Bracha unless the fruit is known to whet one’s appetite. [12]
  3. There’s a doubt regarding compote and there’s what to rely to make a Bracha. [13]

Desserts

  1. In general, desserts aren’t covered by the Hamotzei and each food requires it’s own Bracha even if eaten during the meal except for mezonot which are Pas HaBah Bekisnin. [14] For example:
  • bisli and peanuts with flour based coating require Mezonot,
  • baked apple and nuts require HaEtz,
  • peanuts and popcorn require HaAdama,
  • chocolate, sugar, and candy require Shehakol. [15]
  1. There’s a wide dispute regarding ice cream and there’s what to rely on make the Bracha but it’s preferable to make the Bracha on another food that certainly requires a Shehakol during a meal. [16] Sephardim hold that one shouldn’t make a Bracha on ice cream in a meal but rather should cover it with another Shehakol. [17]

Mezonot

  1. Pas HaBah BeKisnin such as cake, cookies, and biscuits don’t require a Bracha during the meal even if eaten as a dessert. [18]
  2. However, if one eats the mezonot to become full it doesn’t require a Bracha in any case. [19]
  3. The minhag is not to make a Bracha on mezonot as dessert unless it fulfills all three requirements of Pas HaBah BeKisnin. However, the strict halacha requires a Bracha even the mezonot only fulfills the condition of having dough made with a majority of ingredients in comparison to the water not counting the flour and having a sweet filler. For example, Sufganiyot filled with jelly, cake with a filler (cream, jelly) unless if the filler is a thick independent layer, chocolate covered cookies or biscuits, sandwich cookies, pie (if shell is made with majority of ingredients in comparison to the water), peanuts with flour based coating all require Mezonot if eaten for dessert. [20]
  4. To remove oneself from all doubt regarding mezonot one should either
  • make a mezonot on something that certainly requires a mezonot during a meal and it will cover all other mezonot,
  • eat a little mezonot before the meal and intend that it should cover the other mezonot during the meal,
  • when making the HaMotzei have intention that the bread should cover the other mezonot
  • eat the mezonot cakes after the Birkat HaMazon
  • or make a Shehakol on something that certainly requires a Shehakol during a meal and have intent to cover the mezonot. [21]

References

  1. ↑ S”A 177:1
  2. ↑ S”A and Rama 177:5
  3. ↑ S”A 174:1, Vezot HaBracha (pg 72, Chapter 8)
  4. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 73, Chapter 8)
  5. ↑ Shemirat Shabbat KeHilchata 48:18, Vezot HaBracha (pg 73, chapter 8)
  6. ↑ S”A 174:7, Chaye Adam 43:1, see Vezot HaBracha (pg 72, chapter 8) adds that on fruit juice one doesn’t make a Bracha during the meal.
  7. ↑ Biur Halacha 174 D”H VeHaMinhag, Vezot HaBracha (pg 70, chapter 8) writes that this it’s an obligation but a righteous practice.
  8. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 70, chapter 8)
  9. ↑ Mishna Brurah 174:39, Vezot HaBracha (pg 73, Chapter 8)
  10. ↑ Mishna Brurah 174:39, Vezot HaBracha (pg 73, Chapter 8)
  11. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 76, chapter 8)
  12. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 77, chapter 8)
  13. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 78, chapter 8)
  14. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 74, Chapter 8)
  15. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 73-4, Chapter 8)
  16. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 74, chapter 8 note 8)
  17. ↑ Yalkut Yosef 177:10
  18. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 75, chapter 8)
  19. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 75, chapter 8)
  20. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (Birur Halacha 12, pg 241-3)
  21. ↑ Vezot HaBracha (pg 75-6, chapter 8)
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