[Avodah] eating for brachot rather than brachot for eating?

[Zev Sero]

On 8/6/21 9:23 pm, Alexander Seinfeld via Avodah wrote:
> They did not eat them because they only ate healthy food.
> Eating for berachot began when Jews stopped paying attention to the
> mitzvah of shmrat haguf (staying healthy).
> My guess is mid-20th Century when unhealthy calories became dirt cheap.
> Alexander Seinfeld
> 
>> Did bnai yeshiva not eat granola bars in the time of Moshe Rabbeinu due
>> to safeik brachot? When did the approach of eating for brachot rather
>> than brachot for eating take off? Why?

I don't know what exactly is meant by "eating for brachos".   Do you 
mean eating something, e.g. fruit, for the purpose of saying an extra 
bracha?  That is a long-established custom on Shabbos, in order to make 
up the 100 brachos.

What I thought at first that you meant, though, was solving a safek 
brachos by eating foods that definitely bear each of the brachos 
involved. E.g. if you want to eat something and you're not sure whether 
it's ha'etz or ha'adama, the practice of eating something that is 
definitely ha'etz and something that is definitely ha'adama, so what you 
actually wanted to eat is covered.  I'm not sure when that started, but 
I assume it's early.


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Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a healthy summer
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