[Avodah] spanish minhagim

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Jan 16, 2008 10:26 AM, Simon Montagu <simon.montagu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2008 2:08 PM, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After kiddush and before hamotzi they have a minhag to eat three foods
> > that have three
> > berachot (etz,adamah,shehakol). I was always taught to have hamotzi as
> > soon as possible
> > after kiddush
>
> My wife's brothers also have this minhag. The reason for it is to make
> up the total of 100 berachot per day in spite of the shorter Amida on
> Shabbat.
> _
>

FWIW My rebbe - Rav Yoseph Weiss made a bracha on Besamim on Friday Night -
probably for the same purpose
-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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