[Avodah] Rabbi Jachter: The Bracha on One Slice of Pizza

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> Many people recite Mezonot on one slice of pizza based on Rav Moshe
> Feinstein's reported ruling that pizza is Pat Habaah BeKisnin. Rav Moshe
> is reported to have asserted that pizza is a snack type food and that one
> does not establish a meal when he eats only one slice of pizza. Other
> Poskim disagree. Rav Mordechai Willig (Am Mordechai page 99) rules
> that Hamotzi should be recited even on one slice of pizza because most
> often pizza is consumed on the context of a meal and not as a snack. This
> argument might hinge on what is meant as a "meal." Rav Moshe might respond
> that the Halacha refers to a full meal such as dinner and not lunch,
> which in America is regarded as a light meal (see Rav Forst, The Laws
> of Berachos page 249 footnote 77 who advances a similar argument). Rav
> Ovadia Yosef (cited in Yalkut Yosef, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, page 223
> in the 5760 edition) and Rav Yisroel Belsky (Mesora 1:40) also rule
> that one should recite Hamotzi even on one slice of pizza. Rav Zalman
> Nechemia Goldberg and Rav Hershel Schachter also told this author that
> Hamotzi is the appropriate Bracha even for one slice of pizza.

And based upon the SA re: Pashtida, I concur that pizza always triggers
hamotzi


See
Halacha File: The Bracha on One Slice of Pizza
http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/14-38_The_Bracha_on_One_Slice_of_Pizza.htm

Good Chanukkah
RRW
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