[Avodah] boiling water

[Ben Waxman]

This psak has been reported a lot over the last few weeks, as part of an 
advertisement for some new book.

http://www.ateret4u.com/online/f_01355_part_15.html#HtmpReportNum0004_L2

Here Rav Ovadia says that one should allow the coffee or tea to cool a 
bit before saying the bracha. If someone says the bracha and only then 
allows the coffee to cool, that passes b'diavad.

However on the same page, 
http://www.ateret4u.com/online/f_01355_part_15.html#HtmpReportNum0005_L2 
he writes that one doesn't say a bracha achrona on coffee which is hot 
because one drinks it very slowly.

So it would seem that at least b'diavad one can say a bracha on a piping 
hot cup of tea.

Ben

On 7/19/2013 8:24 PM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> My daughter learned in seminary that you're not allowed to (or should 
> not) drink water that has been heated but not to the point of 
> boiling.  If it was boiled and then cooled off that's OK but you can't 
> pour yourself a cup of coffee from the kettle before the water boils.  
> I told her I had never heard of this and would ask my learned friends 
> on Avodah.  Anybody?

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