<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Moshe Y. Gluck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgluck@gmail.com" target="_blank">mgluck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="">Is eating a hefsek? For example, I make a berachah on a piece of cake, and then start davening maariv. As I’m davening, I stop every so often and take another bite. (Forgetting the kavod hatefillah aspect – this is a hypothetical.) Is the eating a hefsek in my birchos krias Shema?</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>Related question - What about drinking? I've seen chazzanim on RH have a cup of tea with them at the bima that they sip from every so often. I will occasionally sip coffee throughout pesukei d'zimrah or birchos krias shma so that I can be awake for Shmone Esrei.<br>
<br>KT,<br></div><div>Michael<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>