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==When does water require a bracha?== | ==When does water require a bracha?== | ||
# One only makes a Shehakol before drinking water and Boreh Nefashot after drinking if one drinks to quench one's thirst or assist digestion. <ref> S"A 204:7 writes only if one drinks water for one's thirst does one make a bracha. The source is found in Gemara Brachot | # One only makes a Shehakol before drinking water and Boreh Nefashot after drinking if one drinks to quench one's thirst or assist digestion. <ref> S"A 204:7 writes only if one drinks water for one's thirst does one make a bracha. The source is found in Gemara Brachot 44a and Rambam (Brachot 8:1). Buir Halacha 204:& D"H HaShoteh writes that drinking water in order to assist digestion is equivlant to dirnking for thirst. The Bracha Achrona on water also depnds on whether one is thirsty or not as rules the S"A 204:7 (see Sh"t Shevet HaLevi 9:42 who writes that the Ashel Avraham who writes that one always makes a Bracha Achrona is error.) </ref> | ||
# However if one drinks water for any other reason such as | # However if one drinks water for any other reason such as | ||
:* to swallow a pill or food <ref> Mishna Brurah 204:40 and Biur Halacha 204:7 D"h HaShoteh </ref> | :* to swallow a pill or food <ref> Mishna Brurah 204:40 and Biur Halacha 204:7 D"h HaShoteh </ref> | ||
