[Avodah] shechiyanu

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:
> Eli Turkel wrote:

>>> Just had this shabbat a watermelon that was orange inside instead of red.
>>> The guy who brought to kiddush thought we would make a shehechiyanu
>>> but we decided that the beracha applies to fruits and not vegetables.

>> Not so.  It applies to any fruit or vegetable which is seasonal.
>> It would apply even to potatoes, if you could tell that they were
>> from the new season, and not stored from last year.

> Darchai Moshe bringing Maharil disagrees with you
> Darche Moshe  on Tur 225/2

1) That's Mahari Weil, not Maharil
2) On the contrary, he says exactly what I did.  The reason we don't
say shehecheyanu on potatoes is not that they're vegetables but that
they;re stored all year; if they weren't, we would.   As the article
you linked to says, it's an explicit gemara that we do say it on
pumpkins, since they are only available in their season.



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