Brachot When Tasting Foods
When cooking and trying to get a favorable taste or other similar instances where you would only consume a small amount or food, is a blessing required? Join Rabbi Dovid Fink as he explores brachot for small portions of food.
Brachot When Tasting Foods: Brachot When Tasting Foods
The opinions of the poskim regarding blessings when tasting food revolve around fundamental halachic issues:
What is the halachic definition of eating and drinking?
How do we establish someone’s kavvana (intentions)?
How do you resolve a halachic controversy and reach a conclusion?
Sources are available through the links in both WORD format and pdf. In class we will translate and explain the sources.
In addition to being one of Rabbi Brovender's first students, Rabbi Dovid Fink is an outstanding expertﾠand teacher of Halacha. Rabbi Fink received his Rabbinic ordination from ITRI and the Mir and was awarded his Ph.D in Semitic Languages and Linguistics from Yale University. Rav Fink has taught thousands of students from all over the world for over 35 years.