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# Tosfot (there) comment that nowadays people eat their bread without salt. The implication is that asking someone to bring salt after making the beracha would then constitute an interruption, or [[hefsek]], and one may then need a new beracha to eat. Only speech that relates to the piece of bread itself would not be a [[hefsek]]. <ref> By that logic, the salt isn't required for the bread itself. Such appears to be the opinion of the Rashba (Shut HaRashba 1:208) where one was fine having the bread plain. In that way, asking for salt is like ordinary speech, which constitutes a [[hefsek]]. </ref>
# Tosfot (there) comment that nowadays people eat their bread without salt. The implication is that asking someone to bring salt after making the beracha would then constitute an interruption, or [[hefsek]], and one may then need a new beracha to eat. Only speech that relates to the piece of bread itself would not be a [[hefsek]]. <ref> By that logic, the salt isn't required for the bread itself. Such appears to be the opinion of the Rashba (Shut HaRashba 1:208) where one was fine having the bread plain. In that way, asking for salt is like ordinary speech, which constitutes a [[hefsek]]. </ref>
# Rambam (Hilchot [[Berachot]] Perek Alef) writes that anything that relates to the general meal isn't considered a [[hefsek]]. Asking for salt is then not a [[hefsek]], even where one is fine eating the bread without it.
# Rambam (Hilchot [[Berachot]] Perek Alef) writes that anything that relates to the general meal isn't considered a [[hefsek]]. Asking for salt is then not a [[hefsek]], even where one is fine eating the bread without it.
# The Rama (O"C 167:6) and the Beit Yosef (Tur O"C 167) bring from the Kol Bo that ideally one should avoid even such speech. If one did say any of those things, however, he may eat without a new beracha.
# The Rama (O"C 167:6) and the Beit Yosef (Tur O"C 167) bring from the Kol Bo that ideally one should avoid even such speech. If one did say any of those things, however, he may eat without a new beracha. <ref> Examples of such speech that the Shulchan Aruch gives are: "bring the salt" (MB: even though we don't require one to wait to eat for salt to be brought, since one wants to eat the bread this way, it is considered related to the meal), "give to someone to eat" (MB: even if he is telling them to give someone a separate loaf of bread), "feed the animals" (MB: since this is considered 'related to the meal', because it is forbidden to eat before giving to one's animal). </ref>
# The Sefer HaZikaron L'Gri Weinberg quotes the opinion of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach that one who took a vow to never eat before reciting a pasuk may say the pasuk after the beracha, if he forgot to do so beforehand and only remembered then. It would therefore not be a [[hefsek]].  
# The Sefer HaZikaron L'Gri Weinberg quotes the opinion of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach that one who took a vow to never eat before reciting a pasuk may say the pasuk after the beracha, if he forgot to do so beforehand and only remembered then. It would therefore not be a [[hefsek]].


== If the one making the beracha or the listeners talk==
== If the one making the beracha or the listeners talk==
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