[Avodah] Tu B'Shevat, Order Of Brachos

[Professor L. Levine]

>From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis


Q. This Wednesday is Tu B'Shevat. There is a custom on Tu B'Shevat to eat fruits, especially those from the seven species with which Eretz Yisroel was blessed. Can you please review the order of the brachos?


A. If one has an assortment of fruit in front of them, one should say the bracha of Borei Pri Ha'eitz on the most important fruit, and the bracha will exempt the rest of the fruit that one will eat. Fruit from the seven species are considered more important than other fruit. Among the seven species olives are considered the most important, followed by dates, grapes, figs and then pomegranates. If one has a whole fruit and a sliced fruit of the same species, one should recite the bracha on the whole fruit, but a sliced olive would come first before any other species even if it is a whole fruit. If one does not have any fruit of the seven species, one should recite the bracha on the fruit that they usually prefer. If one does not have any preference, one should say the bracha on a whole fruit, if one is available.

Therefore, the order of the brachos is as follows:

  *   Olives, dates, grapes, figs and then pomegranates
  *   The fruit that one usually prefers
  *   If one has a whole fruit, this comes before a pitted or sliced fruit of the same species.


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