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===Examples=== | ===Examples=== | ||
# For example, one who drank bitter liquor and wants to remove the bad taste with bread should make a Bracha on the liquor and no Bracha is needed for the bread. <Ref> S”A 212:1, Vezot HaBracha (pg 89, chapter 11) </ref> However, since it’s difficult to determine whether one is eating the bread just in order to remove the bitter taste or also for the satiation in brings independently, one should avoid having bread or mezonot just to remove a bitter taste. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 212:5 in name of the Shlah, Vezot HaBracha (pg 89, chapter 11), Halachos of Brochos (pg 57, chapter 11) </ref> | # For example, one who drank bitter liquor and wants to remove the bad taste with bread should make a Bracha on the liquor and no Bracha is needed for the bread. <Ref> S”A 212:1, Vezot HaBracha (pg 89, chapter 11) </ref> However, since it’s difficult to determine whether one is eating the bread just in order to remove the bitter taste or also for the satiation in brings independently, one should avoid having bread or mezonot just to remove a bitter taste. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 212:5 in name of the Shlah, Vezot HaBracha (pg 89, chapter 11), Halachos of Brochos (pg 57, chapter 11) </ref> | ||
# If one eats pickles or olives in order to whet one’s apittite for a meal (that’s one is not having bread), the main food such as meat is Ikar and the olive and pickles are Tofel. | # If a person has bread with olive oil and the olive oil is considered ancillary the Bracha on the bread covers the olive oil. However, if one has a little bread with a lot of olive oil (which one is having in order to soothe one’s throat) which is one’s primary interest the Bracha on the olive oil (HaEtz) and it exempts the Bracha on the bread. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 202:28 </ref> | ||
# If one eats pickles or olives in order to whet one’s apittite for a meal (that’s one is not having bread), the main food such as meat is Ikar and the olive and pickles are Tofel. To avoid a dispute, one should eat a little of the meat first in order that it cover the pickles or olives. <Ref> Halachos of Brachos (Rabbi Pinchas Bodner, chapter 4, pg 56) </ref> | |||
# One of the ingredients of licorice is flour, however, since the whole purpose of the flour is to make the ingredients stick, the Bracha is Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12) </ref> | # One of the ingredients of licorice is flour, however, since the whole purpose of the flour is to make the ingredients stick, the Bracha is Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12) </ref> | ||
# If one of the ingredients of chopped-meat is flour or bread crumbs, however, since the whole purpose of the flour is to make the ingredients stick or to increase the volume of the meat, the Bracha is Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12), VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 67) </ref> | # If one of the ingredients of chopped-meat is flour or bread crumbs, however, since the whole purpose of the flour is to make the ingredients stick or to increase the volume of the meat, the Bracha is Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha (pg 108, chapter 12), VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 67) </ref> | ||
# For cheese cake in the usual case where there’s a thin layer of dough, one should only make Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha pg 93, VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 79) </ref> | # For cheese cake in the usual case where there’s a thin layer of dough, one should only make Shehakol. <Ref> Vezot HaBracha pg 93, VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 79) </ref> | ||
# If one eats an ice-cream in a cone and one’s intent is only to eat the ice-cream and the cone is only used to hold the ice-cream, one should only make a Shehakol. However, in the usual case where one eats the cone also for a taste, two Brachot are required. <Ref> VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 61), Vezot HaBracha (pg 390), Sh”t Igrot Moshe O”C 4:43 </ref> | # If one eats an ice-cream in a cone and one’s intent is only to eat the ice-cream and the cone is only used to hold the ice-cream, one should only make a Shehakol. However, in the usual case where one eats the cone also for a taste, two Brachot are required. <Ref> VeTen Bracha (Halachos of Brochos by Rabbi Bodner, chapter 4, pg 61), Vezot HaBracha (pg 390), Sh”t Igrot Moshe O”C 4:43 </ref> | ||
==The second category of Ikar and Tofel- Enhancers== | ==The second category of Ikar and Tofel- Enhancers== | ||
