Do You Ever Bless God?

A lot of people think bros are just a verbal hurdle, something you mumble so you can get to the food already, like a spiritual toll booth where you say the words, you pay the fee, and you move on. But for other people, it's not a hurdle at all. A bra is simply the words catching up to a feeling. It's the verbal expression of a moment of gratitude that the food just woke up inside of you. I saw that up close the other day. I was with Eton Feiner right before I interviewed him and I watched him make a not rushed, not mechanical, but present. Take a look. You see, a braha isn't a code you unlock. It's not a password to permission. It's a feeling that you translate into words. That's why an apple is one braha and that same apple turned into applesauce becomes a whole another braha because one makes you think about hashem's trees in the other makes you think about hashem's food different experience requires a different emotion different words because that's sort of what brahos are our emotional expression of thanking Hashem for the incredible world that he made just for us. So the next time you pick up a cup of water, don't just blurt out the braha. Pause, feel what that sip actually gives you, and then say the words. Because a braha doesn't change the food. It changes the person eating it. [music]