Bracha Achat Mein Shalosh: Difference between revisions

# If one ate a [[Kezayit]] of [[mezonot]] food (cake, cookies, etc) after one finishes eating one should make [[Al HaMichya]]. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 208:1 and 210:1. </ref> Being that Al Hamichya is only recited for shivat haminim there is a discussion if it  is Biblical or rabbinic; the conclusion is that it is rabbinic.<ref>Halachot Gedolot (as understood by Smag Asin 27), Rashba (Brachot 35a s.v. hachi), Rosh (Brachot 6:16), Tur 209:1, Sefer Hachinuch (no. 430), and Ritva (Brachot 6:7) all hold that Al Hamichya is deoritta. Smag (Asin 27) and Rambam Brachot 8:12 (as understood by Bet Yosef 209:3) hold that it is derabbanan. Shulchan Aruch 209:3 holds like the Rambam that it is only rabbinic.</ref>

# If someone has a food that’s there's a dispute whether it is Al Hagefen one should not eat that food together with a [[Kezayit]] of [[Shehakol]] and [[Kezayit]] of Shevat HaMinim as it’s forbidden to add any addition to [[Al HaMichya]] even if it doesn’t cause an addition of Hashem’s name. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 208:18 based on the Trumat HaDeshen 30</ref>

# If someone had a food that’s a [[Kezayit]] of [[Mezonot]] and less than a [[Kezayit]] of Shevat HaMinim one shouldn’t add the addition of Al HaEtz but one who does add it in has what to rely on. <ref> Sh”t Mishneh Halachot 4:29 says that this law should be similar to that of the Shulchan Aruch 208:18 where one shouldn’t add in an addition even if one isn’t adding Hashem’s name. However, he concludes that one has what to rely on if one does add the part of Al HaEtz because the Taz and some achronim say that this S”A is only true Lechatchila, but bedieved one should add in that line of Al HaEtz. Yalkut Yosef (v. 3 p. 496 no. 22) implies that one shouldn’t add the addition unless one had the proper Shiur. </ref>