[Avodah] Soft Flour Tortilla / Wrap

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:42:31PM +0200, Tal Moshe Zwecker wrote:
: For a Soft Flour Tortilla / Wrap
: What Bracha would you say HaMotzi or Mezenos and why?

For the theory:
See SA OC 168:8 just to see what it isn't, and to see why 8's discussion
of belilah rakah doesn't apply, see se'if 15, the MA 40, the MB s"q
88-89 and the Bi'ur Halakhah d"h "qemach".

It would seem that a wrap that has a texture such that it could be eaten
on its own would be hamotzi. Note that's only about having a texture
soft enough for the wrap to qualify as terisah, nothing about whether
it's so bland few would eat it that way.

Wraps are baked like the MB s"q 88, "de'i lo yahah belilasah rakah
k"k... kol shebasof asuyah betanor" is a hamotzi. Similarly in 89,
citing the Rosh: "kivan she'ofin oso beguma umeqabeitz ha'isah yachdav"
produces bread, hamotzi.

The above is from a vague memory of a Torah Ladaas article (published and
usually written by R' Matis Blum), bolstered by the Bar Ilan Responsa
web site. (Access paid for by giving money to an institution we have
yet to establish I was allowed to give money to to get access to BI via
their library's account.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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