DailyHalacha.com for Mobile Devices Now Available

Halacha is In Honor Of
 Sarina Eshet Menahem Cohen Bat Moshe & Grazia
""Mum you are always in our heart, may this dedication bring an Aliyah to your Neshama Amen" "

Dedicated By
Nily Schwartz Samy Cohen & Shula Kanzen

Click Here to Sponsor Daily Halacha
      
(File size: 1.75 MB)
The Minimum Quantity Requiring a Beracha Aharona in Some Common Foods

A person who ate a Ke'zayit of food is required to recite a "Beracha Aharona" after eating. This quantity is determined by volume, and not by weight; a volume of food capable of displacing 1 oz. of water constitutes a Ke'zayit. Therefore, one cannot determine whether a certain amount constitutes a Ke'zayit by weighing it; one must ascertain the volume of the food in order to determine its status vis-à-vis "Beracha Aharona."

We list here a number of common foods and the amount of each that requires one to recite a "Beracha Aharona." This list is taken from Rabbi Yisroel Pinchos Bodner's work "Halachos of K'zayis."

1) 1/6th of an apple
2) A bit less than half a banana
3) ¼ cup of blueberries
4) 3 baby carrots
5) 4 cherries
6) 30 chickpeas
7) 2.5 sections of an orange
8) 3 sections of a tangerine
9) 1/3 cup of raisins, or approximately 92 raisins
10) 1 2/3 slices of American cheese
11) ¼ cup of cheerios, or 60 cheerios
12) 1/3 cup of cornflakes, or 70 flakes
13) One-half of an egg
14) A bit more than 1 granola bar (it should be emphasized that over granola bars one recites "Bore Peri Ha'adama" before eating and "Bore Nefashot" after eating)
15) 1/3 cup of rice
16) 1/3 of a rice cake (over a rice cake one recites "Bore Peri Ha'adama" before eating and "Bore Nefashot" after eating)
17) 25 almonds
18) 12 "Dipsy Doodles," or 2/3 of a small bag
19) 8 onion rings
20) 30 peanuts
21) 1/3 cup of popcorn
22) 5 pretzel nuggets
23) ¾ of a standard "Dutch" hard pretzel

 


Recent Daily Halachot...
The Sephardic Custom Concerning the "Yihud" of a Bride and Groom
The Wedding Ceremony – The Proper Pronunciation of “Al Yedeh Hupa Be’kiddushin”; the Custom to Break a Glass
Reciting Sheva Berachot After Sundown of the Seventh Day After a Wedding
Reciting Sheba Berachot at a Meal That Was Not Specifically Prepared for the Bride and Groom
May a Person Who Did Not Eat at a Sheba Berachot Celebration Recite One of the Berachot?
Sheba Berachot – If Somebody Did Not Eat Bread at the Meal, Reciting the Berachot Seated
Are the Sheba Berachot Recited if the Bride and Groom Did Not Eat?
Reciting the Sheba Berachot if the Bride and Groom are Not Present
Nidda – Abstaining During “Onat Ha’hodesh” and “Onat Hahaflaga”
The Obligation to Abstain From Relations at the Time When the Wife is Likely to Become a Nidda
The “Tikkun Ha’kelali” – Repairing the Damage Caused by Making Oneself Impure
The Proper Procedure for Sheba Berachot That is Not Held in the Couple’s Home
Making Weddings at Night
Does Dandruff in the Hair Disqualify a Woman’s Immersion in a Mikveh?
Understanding The Beracha of ‘VeTzivanu Al Ha’Arayot’ At The Wedding Ceremony
Page of 239
3585 Halachot found