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

| 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>