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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 52:16-53:2 & 53:3-54:3 Understanding the Bracha on apple puree; jam; dried fruit; popcorn; chocolate; potato chips and rice cakes (Feb 8-9 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 52:8-15 Bracha on wild-growing plants; chocolate coated raisins; juices; sugared orange peel (Feb 7th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 52:1-7 Bracha for fruit grown with hydroponics; Bracha for blueberries/cranberries/bananas/raw cooking apples; (Feb 6th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi:51:8-End "Al Hamichiya"; combinations of different food; effect of Berachos on "wandering souls"; is one who vomits required to bentch? (Feb 5th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 51:2-7 How much food requires a bracha; avoid eating one tangerine segment? Which foods combine for an after bracha? (Feb 4th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 50:11-51:1 Personal creativity within the structure of halacha; Drinking before making Hamotzi; Changing domain whilst chewing gum (Feb 3rd, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Text of today's Kitzur:
ה שבטRules Concerning the Berachos Said Before Enjoying Food, Drinks and Fragrances and Laws Relating to the Concluding BerachahChapter 50, Par. 11 - Chapter 51, Par. 1
11. If you have in front of you two kinds of food, both subject to the same berachah, for example, a nut and an apple, so that you can recite a berachah over one, and [thereby] exempt the other, you should do so. It is forbidden to say the berachah over one kind with the intention of not exempting the other in order to say a separate berachah over the other kind; since it is forbidden to cause the uttering of an unnecessary berachah. Rather, you should say the berachah over the food that is superior; (see Chapter 55) and the other kind is thereby exempt, even though you did not intend to exempt it. But if you said the berachah over the inferior kind, then the superior is not exempt unless you had the intention to exempt it; but if you said the berachah without clear-cut intention, then you must repeat the berachah over the superior kind, since it is not proper that a [berachah over] an inferior kind should exempt the superior kind, without intent.
12. If there are two kinds [of fruit], for example, a fruit of a tree and a fruit of the earth, or food over which the berachah Shehakol should be said; [then], in spite of the fact that post factum [when it is already done], if you had said Shehakol over all of them, or if you had said over a fruit of the tree the berachah Borei peri ha'adamah, you would have fulfilled your obligation; nevertheless, initially you must not do this, rather you should recite the appropriate berachah over each kind. The berachah Borei peri ha'eitz takes precedence [over the others] (see Ch. 55, par. 4). Even if there are wine and grapes in front of you, and you wish to drink wine, and say the berachah, Borei peri hagafen; even though it is permitted to exempt the grapes with this berachah nevertheless, initially you must not do so. Rather, keep in mind not to exempt the grapes [with the berachah over wine], so as to enable you to say the proper berachah, which is Borei peri ha'eitz, over the grapes.
13. If you change places, when eating any kind of food except bread (which is discussed in Ch. 42, par. 19, 20, 21) if you change places, even though your mind was not distracted [from the food], it is considered as though your mind was distracted [from the food]. Consequently, if you eat or drink in one room and then move to another room, in order to conclude your eating and drinking there, even if the food is of the same kind [with which you began the meal], or even if you hold in your hand the food or the beverage, and you carry it into the other room, nevertheless, you must repeat the preceding berachah there. However the after-berachah over what you have eaten before [in the first room] is not required, for the after-berachah [of the entire meal] will suffice for both.
14. Similarly, if you go outside [the house], and then return to your former place to finish the meal, you must repeat the pre-berachah. This rule applies only when you have eaten alone, or when you have eaten in the company of others and all of them left their places. But, if one of the company remained in his place, then when the others return to resume eating and drinking, they need not repeat the berachah since they intended to return to the companion who remained, and to finish their meal [with him]. Since one of the company remained there, the status of fixed place was not cancelled; and they all retain their original status, and it is all considered as one meal.
15. [When you go] from one corner of a room to another, no matter how large the room may be, it is not considered a change of place.
16. If you eat fruit in an orchard which is fenced in and you recite the berachah over the fruit of one tree with the intention of eating fruit of other trees also, you may eat from the other trees even if they are not within your view, for as long as your mind was not distracted you do not have to repeat the berachah. However, if the orchard is not fenced in, and certainly [if you go] from one orchard to another, [the fact that your mind was not distracted] is of no avail, [and you must repeat the berachah].
Chapter 511. [After eating] the fruit of any tree, which is not of the seven species (see paragraph seven) or of any fruit of the ground, or any vegetable, or any food that was not grown in the soil, you should say the concluding berachah, Borei nefashos rabbos. Even if you ate and drank, one [after-] berachah is sufficient for both

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 49:7-50:10 When to say Hatov V'Hameitiv over wine/grape juice; Do flavoured pills need a bracha; I forgot to make a bracha, now what?! (Feb 1-2, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 49:1-6 The significance of wine, Hagafen; Diluting wine; "Hagafen" covers other beverages at the Kiddush too! (Jan 31st, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 48:6-End - Bracha for Bagels, prezels, Maza-brei, kneidlach (Jan 30th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi: 47:22-48:5 Pies, Rogelach, Crackers and the common "Mezonos Bread" mistake (Jan 29th, 2025) - Rabbi Chaim Burman

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