[Avodah] What beracha does one recite on coffee and tea?

[Zev Sero]

On 4/2/21 2:46 pm, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> I know people in YU circles who make ha'eitz on chocolate for the parallel
> reason. R SZ Auerback (Minchas Shelomo vol I 92:1) rules ha'eitz.

I say ha'eitz on chocolate, and have never seen any legitimate source 
for saying shehakol.  To the best of my understanding it's simply an 
amhoratzus that started because people didn't know what it was. 
Remember that edible chocolate was only invented around 1800, so most 
poskim never heard of it.

But the issue is very different from that of tea and coffee.  The poskim 
did know what those are, and said they are shehakol because the leaves 
and beans are discarded and not consumed at all.  That's why I was 
surprised to read an opinion that they are subject to bishul akum. 
That's obviously not the case with chocolate.



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