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#Some have the practice of removing or covering the knives before birkat hamazon.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 180:5, Mishna Brurah 180:11. Mishna Brurah quotes two reasons: One is that knives made out of iron shorten a person's life and it is inappropriate to keep them on the table which is compared to a mizbe'ach that extends a person's life. Another reason is that one time Rabbenu Simcha got to Boneh Yerushalayim he used a knife on the table to kill himself because he became depressed over the Churban. See [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=5/20/2009 Rabbi Mansour's article] for several different explanations of this custom. | #Some have the practice of removing or covering the knives before birkat hamazon.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 180:5, Mishna Brurah 180:11. Mishna Brurah quotes two reasons: One is that knives made out of iron shorten a person's life and it is inappropriate to keep them on the table which is compared to a mizbe'ach that extends a person's life. Another reason is that one time Rabbenu Simcha got to Boneh Yerushalayim he used a knife on the table to kill himself because he became depressed over the Churban. See [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=5/20/2009 Rabbi Mansour's article] for several different explanations of this custom. | ||
Piskei Teshuvot 180:5 notes that according to the first reason it is sufficient to remove steel or iron knives but it isn't necessary to remove plastic knives. </ref> | Piskei Teshuvot 180:5 notes that according to the first reason it is sufficient to remove steel or iron knives but it isn't necessary to remove plastic knives. </ref> | ||
##Some say that this applies on Shabbat and weekdays, and with plastic or metal knives.<ref>[http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=5/20/2009 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | |||
##Some say that this does not apply to Shabbos and Yom Tov<ref>[https://ph.yhb.org.il/10-04-11/ Peninei Halacha (Brachot 4:11)]</ref> or to plastic knives.<ref>Piskei Teshuvot 180:5</ref> | |||
##It isn't necessary to remove the knives from the table for al hamichya of boreh nefashot after a snack.<ref>Sh"t Rivivot Ephraim 1:136:2, Piskei Teshuvot 180:5 </ref> | |||
#One shouldn't clear the table while saying Birkat Hamazon but after the fact if one did one does fulfill one's obligation.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 183:10</ref> | #One shouldn't clear the table while saying Birkat Hamazon but after the fact if one did one does fulfill one's obligation.<ref>Yalkut Yosef 183:10</ref> | ||
