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* [[Talking between the Beracha and eating]]
* [[Talking between the Beracha and eating]]
* [[Other interruptions between the Beracha and eating]]
* [[Other interruptions between the Beracha and eating]]
==General==
# Between a bracha and starting to eat or between a bracha and a starting a mitzvah one may not talk or even answer amen or barchu. If one did it is considered an interruption another bracha is required.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 25:9 with respect to Tefillin writes that if a person speaks between the bracha and the mitzvah he needs another bracha. Similarly, Shulchan Aruch 167:6 with respect to brachot on food writes that if one spoke about something unnecessary to the bracha one needs to recite another bracha. Mezuzah Vhilchoteha 16:12 writes that the same is true of the bracha before putting up a mezuzah that one would require another bracha if one spoke in between.</ref> If one speaks about something relevant and necessary for the food one is about to eat it isn’t an interruption.<ref>Brachot 40a, Shulchan Aruch 167:6</ref>
# After one started to eat and swallowed once he may talk and it isn’t an interruption. After one started a mitzvah one shouldn’t talk but if one did it isn’t considered an interruption.<ref>Rashba 1:244, Ran Rosh Hashana 34.
* Rosh Chullin 6:6 writes that unlike if one made an interruption between two mitzvot such as between putting on the two Tefillin or doing two shechitot if one just started a mitzvah and didn't complete it an interruption doesn't require the person to recite another bracha. Example include Shofar, Hallel, and Megillah. Since once one started a mitzvah one has an obligation to finish it even if one makes an interruption that doesn't completely cause one to despair from having the bracha apply to the whole mitzvah. But if there are multiple mitzvot and one can take a break at any time creating an interruption indeed causes a person to consider the bracha as having terminated. This is quoted by Bet Yosef YD 19:5. The Rashba responsa 1:244 also applies this to Shofar, Hallel, and Megillah that once one starts the mitzvah no interruption will cause one to require a new bracha. Rama 690:5 quotes this. Tosfot Pesachim 115a s.v. matkif agrees. Shulchan Aruch 475:2 quotes this. See Or Letzion 1:39.
* However, the Shibolei Haleket 66 quotes Rav Sadya Goan (cited by Yabia Omer 5:16:1) as holding that speaking in middle of bedikat chametz is a hefsek.</ref>
# If one made a bracha on multiple mitzvot and did the first mitzvah but then spoke between the first mitzvah and the next it is considered an interruption.<ref>Tosfot Chullin 87a s.v. umichsi, Shulchan Aruch YD 19:5.
* The Tosfot Chullin 87a s.v. umichsi discuss whether speaking between several acts of shechita would require a person to make another bracha for shechita. He says on the one hand we find that for Tefillin speaking between putting on the Shel Yad and Shel Rosh requires another bracha, while speaking in a meal after a bracha doesn't require one to make another bracha in the middle of the meal. He suggests that perhaps shechita is similar to a meal and dissimilar to the Tefillin since the Tefillin is one mitzvah, whereas each Shechita is independant. Rav Soloveitchik (Reshimot Shiurim Brachot 11b s.v. vheneh) explained this approach as follows: the bracha only needs to apply to the first act of the mitzvah and everything else is exempt. For food and shechita only the first bite or first shechita requires a bracha and everything else is exempt even if there's talking in between. Tefillin however are a unit and the bracha applies to both together and speaking in between one and the other creates an interruption before the first act was complete. See Divrei Yirmiyahu Tefillin 4:6 who suggests another explanation in Tosfot. The Smag 64 quotes the Sefer Hatrumah 39 who was also in doubt about this question but quotes the Bahag who writes that one needs to recite another bracha. The Bet Yosef YD 19:5 cites the Ran Chullin 28b who quotes the Rif Rosh Hashana 11a, Raavad, and Ramban Chullin 86b s.v. modeh who agree with the Bahag unlike the Rabbenu Yonah who holds otherwise. Rashba in Torat Habayit 21a and Rosh Chullin 6:6 agree with Bahag. Shulchan Aruch 19:5 rules like the Bahag to recite another bracha. Hamezuzah Vehiloteha 16:15 applies this discussion to putting up several mezuzot in the house that if one speaks between the mitzvot one should recite another bracha. He cites the Chovat Hadar p. 79 who agrees.</ref> For a mitzvah such as answering kaddish or kedusha it is permitted to interrupt.<ref>Simla Chadasha 19:10
* Why is speaking between shechitot require a new bracha according to bahag? Ran Pesachim 24a explains that we treat it as though the bracha applies to each tefillin or each shechita and so speaking is an interruption just like between the bracha and starting the mitzvah. However, Rosh chullin 6:6 explains it differently; he writes that speaking in middle of a bunch of mitzvot is the termination of the mitzvah since you don’t need to do any more like by eating. Yeshuot Dovid ch. 6 explains that fundamentally the Rosh agrees with Ran. Tefillin which is two mitzvot any hefsek is a problem like between bracha and mitzvah, but for multiple shechitot is a repetition of one mitzvah so there shouldn’t be a hefsek but the fact that you don’t need to keep going makes it like it is two mitzvot.
* Using the Rosh the Yeshuvot Dovid explains the Simla Chadasha. Since speaking takes away from the mitzvah when a person speaks between mitzvot it is considered as though he has intent to terminate doing the series of mitzvot. However, performing a mitzvah isn't considered an interruption since that isn't considered an inappropriate interruption to the series of mitzvot. Similarly, speaking in the middle of a meal isn't considered an interruption since it isn't considered inappropriate to eat and speak.</ref>
==In the Middle of a Mitzvah==
==In the Middle of a Mitzvah==
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