[Avodah] Rav Aviner on Amen Meals

[Rich, Joel]

Rich, Joel wrote:

> Question: If one eats not because they are hungry but specifically in 
> order to make a bracha, do you still make a bracha?

So long as one still gets the benefit, either of the nutrition or the
taste, then yes.  And, once again, this is nothing new: on Shabbos one
is supposed to eat fruit in order to make up the 100 brachos, and on Yom
Kippur people try to make up as many of the brachos as they can by
smelling things (since there's a limit to how many asher yatzars a
person can make, especially on a day when he's not eating or drinking
anything).

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Zev Sero                                

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Would you say the same thing by taking a drink solely for the purpose of
taking medicine?  
KT
Joel Rich
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