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Just like it is forbidden to benefit from anything that is Hekdesh (property of the Bet HaMikdash) without first redeeming it, so too it is forbidden to benefit from this world since the entire world belongs to Hashem without first redeeming it by making a bracha. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 50:1, See also Maharsha [[Brachot]] 35b</ref> | Just like it is forbidden to benefit from anything that is Hekdesh (property of the Bet HaMikdash) without first redeeming it, so too it is forbidden to benefit from this world since the entire world belongs to Hashem without first redeeming it by making a bracha. <ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 50:1, See also Maharsha [[Brachot]] 35b</ref> | ||
==Minimum Amount== | ==Minimum Amount== | ||
# There is no minimum amount necessary for Bracha Rishona, even if one eats a very small amount of food one must make the appropriate Bracha. <ref>Gemara [[Brachot]] 38b records the story where Rabbi Yochanan made a Bracha Rishona and [[Bracha Achrona]] on a salted olive. The Gemara asks how Rabbi Yochanan could make a Bracha if after removing the pit there wouldn’t be a shiur (certain amount of volume). The Gemara answers that the shiur is an average olive and since he had a large olive even after removing the pit he still ate the shiur. Tosfot 39a s.v. Batzar writes that the Gemara is specifically speaking about [[Bracha Achrona]], however, one should make a Bracha Rishona for any amount because one shouldn’t benefit from the world without a Bracha ([[Brachot]] 35a). Tur and S”A 210:1 rule that one must make a Bracha Rishona on any amount of food because one may not get benefit from the world without a Bracha. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 50:1 agrees.</ref> | # There is no minimum amount necessary for Bracha Rishona, even if one eats a very small amount of food one must make the appropriate Bracha. <ref>Gemara [[Brachot]] 38b records the story where Rabbi Yochanan made a Bracha Rishona and [[Bracha Achrona]] on a salted olive. The Gemara asks how Rabbi Yochanan could make a Bracha if after removing the pit there wouldn’t be a shiur (certain amount of volume). The Gemara answers that the shiur is an average olive and since he had a large olive even after removing the pit he still ate the shiur. Tosfot 39a s.v. Batzar writes that the Gemara is specifically speaking about [[Bracha Achrona]], however, one should make a Bracha Rishona for any amount because one shouldn’t benefit from the world without a Bracha ([[Brachot]] 35a). Tur and S”A 210:1 rule that one must make a Bracha Rishona on any amount of food because one may not get benefit from the world without a Bracha. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 50:1 agrees. Kesef Mishna 3:12 explains that the reason chazal established a bracha rishona for any amount and a bracha achrona only for a specific amount is because eating of the Torah requires a certain amount and they had to institute a bracha rishona for any amount since a person might start eating a small amount and change their mind to eat more than the requisite amount.</ref> | ||
==When is a new Bracha Rishona required?== | ==When is a new Bracha Rishona required?== | ||
# As long as one didn’t have a hesech hadaat (interruption of thought) one doesn’t need to make a new Bracha Rishona. However, if one made a [[Bracha Achrona]], and one wants to eat again a new Bracha Rishona is needed. <ref> Beiur Halacha 190 s.v. Acher, Vezot HaBracha (pg 53, chapter 5) </ref> | # As long as one didn’t have a hesech hadaat (interruption of thought) one doesn’t need to make a new Bracha Rishona. However, if one made a [[Bracha Achrona]], and one wants to eat again a new Bracha Rishona is needed. <ref> Beiur Halacha 190 s.v. Acher, Vezot HaBracha (pg 53, chapter 5) </ref> | ||
