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Do you need to make a new bracha on dessert if you washed for bread at the beginning of a meal?
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Rabbi Eli Gersten, OU Kosher recorder of psak and policy, explores the different customs surrounding this question in the latest episode of our Kashrut Series. Got more questions about kashrut? Drop them in the comments! #oukosher #kosher #kashrut #kosherfood #bracha #dessert
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I washed for my Shabbat meal, and then for dessert
they served cake, fruit, ice cream. Do I make a
separate bracha on those foods? According to
Shulcan Aruch, foods that are not served as
part of the meal, things that are brought only
for dessert, require a separate bracha. However,
there are those that say that today our eating
habits have changed and the dessert is part of
the meal itself, and therefore they don't make
any other brachot after the Hamotzi, with the
exception of course of Boei Pro Hagafen. But
fruit or sweets, there are those that never
make a bracha on that. So every person should
follow their custom. When it comes to cake,
many do not make a bracha on cake because
cake is considered a type of bread. It would
be included in the bracha of Hamotzi. Cake,
cookies, items like that, things that we call
pas haba bekisnin,. there are those who say that
really it is bread, and therefore the bracha of
Hamotzi already covered it. There are different
customs with this too. There are those that will
make a Mezonot on cake at the end of a meal. Ice
cream is also an interesting category. Some say
it's considered like a drink. It's just a frozen
form of milk. And therefore, just like on a drink,
you don't make a bracha, that's all included in
the Hamotzi, so ice cream as well, they say not
to make a bracha on that. There are those who will
try to make a Shehakol on a candy, and that way it
will cover the ice cream. Some do make a Shehakol
on the ice cream, all different minhagim, and like
we said before, some don't make a bracha at all
on any desserts. Basically, every person should
follow whatever their custom is, or they should
speak to their rabbi about what they should do.