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#If one eats a sandwich and is not seated at a table then he should leave some bread in his lunch box for Birkat HaMazon so that it will be possible for Hashem's blessing to come to him.<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Berachot II, 180:3 </ref> | #If one eats a sandwich and is not seated at a table then he should leave some bread in his lunch box for Birkat HaMazon so that it will be possible for Hashem's blessing to come to him.<ref>Yalkut Yosef, Berachot II, 180:3 </ref> | ||
# If no bread remains one should place some other bread on the table.<ref>[http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipID=2588 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | # If no bread remains one should place some other bread on the table.<ref>[http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipID=2588 Rabbi Eli Mansour] </ref> | ||
#Some have the practice of removing the knife before birkat hamazon.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 180:5. See [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?ClipDate=5/20/2009 Rabbi Mansour's article] for several different explanations of this custom. </ref> 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> This is not necessary for al hamichya of boreh nefashot after a snack.<ref>Sh"t Rivivot Ephraim 1:136:2 </ref> | #Some have the practice of removing the knife before birkat hamazon.<ref>Shulchan Aruch O.C. 180:5, Mishna Brurah 180:11. Mishn Brurah quotes two reasons: One is that knives 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. </ref> 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> This is not necessary for al hamichya of boreh nefashot after a snack.<ref>Sh"t Rivivot Ephraim 1:136:2 </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> | ||
