Brachot On Foods That Start With The Letter B: Difference between revisions

| Bagel || [[HaMotzei]]  || Birkat Ha'mazon<ref>Bet Yosef 168:14 learns from the Gemara Yevamot 40a that dough which was first boiled in water and then baked in the oven is [[HaMotzei]]. He codifies it in Shulchan Aruch 168:14. Laws of [[Brachos]] (Rabbi Forst, pg 260) writes that bagels are made in this way of boiling dough and then baking it in an oven and so it should be [[HaMotzei]]. Halachos of [[Brachos]] (Rabbi Bodner, chap 26, pg 467) agrees. See also Pri Megadim (E"A 168:39), Kaf HaChaim 168:119, and Chazon Ish OC 26:9 who write that bagels are [[HaMotzei]] based on the above Shulchan Aruch 168:14. </ref>

| Banana || HaAdama  || Borei Nefashos<ref>Gemara [[Brachot]] 40a-b defines a tree in Halacha as a plant which is capable of giving fruit more than once (after picking the fruit, the tree doesn't die). Tosfot ([[Brachot]] 40a s.v.  Itah) understands that as the plant can produce fruit for more than one year even if the branches and trunk of the plant wither in the winter if it comes back because of the roots it's still HaEtz. However, the Rosh ([[Brachot]] 6:23) argues that only if the trunk stays intact during the winter in order to produce fruit another year does the fruit require HaEtz. Shulchan Aruch 203:2 rules like the Rosh that any plant of which the trunk withers during the winter and doesn't produce fruit the next year the bracha is HaAdama. Additionally, Shulchan Aruch 203:3 rules that bananas which fit into this halachic category is HaAdama. The Laws of [[Brachos]] (Rabbi Forst, pg 383) and Halachos of [[Brachos]] (Rabbi Bodner, chap 22, pg 393) concur that the bracha is HaAdama.</ref>

|  Sephardim || [[Shehakol]] || Borei Nefashos<ref>Yalkut Yosef (vol 3, pg 426) </ref>

| Brussels Sprouts || HaAdama  || Borei Nefashos<ref>Laws of [[Brachos]] (Rabbi Forst, pg 359-384), Halachos of [[Brachos]] (pg 396), [http://www.ou.org/publications/brachot/default.htm OU Guide to Brachos] </ref>