[Avodah] Reciting Hamotzi at a Simcha

[Prof. Levine]

At 04:35 PM 3/5/2021, Micha Berger wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:32:58AM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
> > You missed my point. When you go back to your table, you sit down and make
> > the bracha,  and I think that this is the appropriate way to make HaMotzi,
> > no matter what you make it on.
>
>And that means an unnecessary pause between washing and eating the bread.
>As well as puzzled people upset you didn't answer their greating.
>
>The whole reason why the caterer put cubes of bread at the washing station
>to begin with. Just with a nod to the preference to use a whole loaf.
>
>Truth is, I didn't understand the original article's problem. When you
>are washing, there is no whole loaf there. I'm not sure the preference
>for whole goes as for as even when they aren't at hand.

>>Question for you.  Most people do not have a wash sink in their 
>>dining room.  They wash for Hamotzi on Shabbos in the kitchen and 
>>then they walk to the dining room,  sit down, and make Hamotzi. 
>>According to you it would be preferable to  have lechem Mishneh 
>>next to the sink in the kitchen and make Hamotzi there,  since this 
>>would avoid " an unnecessary pause between washing and eating the 
>>bread."  Yet no one I know makes Hamotzi at the sink in the 
>>kitchen.  Everyone who does not have a sink in their dining room, 
>>wahses in the kitchen and then walks into the dining room,  sits 
>>down, and then makes Hamotzit.  This is clearly the preferable way 
>>to do things.


YL