<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 16, 2008 10:26 AM, Simon Montagu <<a href="mailto:simon.montagu@gmail.com">simon.montagu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 16, 2008 2:08 PM, Eli Turkel <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> After kiddush and before hamotzi they have a minhag to eat three foods<br>> that have three
<br>> berachot (etz,adamah,shehakol). I was always taught to have hamotzi as<br>> soon as possible<br>> after kiddush<br><br></div>My wife's brothers also have this minhag. The reason for it is to make<br>up the total of 100 berachot per day in spite of the shorter Amida on
<br>Shabbat.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_</div></div></blockquote></div><br>FWIW My rebbe - Rav Yoseph Weiss made a bracha on Besamim on Friday Night - probably for the same purpose<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>