[Avodah] Eating Before Davening

[David Riceman]

RYL:
> The minhag is to allowing having coffee or tea even with sugar and
> milk added.

It's true that several poskim rule that on may drink tea or coffee
before davening. I'm unaware of anyone who includes milk or sugar in the
leniency. What bothers me is that the stated reason is that they are
maya b'alma. Now that we consider them psychotropic drugs, and, thus,
devarim hashuvim, how can the heter still apply?

David Riceman
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