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      "section": "Selected Laws and Customs",
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          "english": "SELECTED LAWS AND CUSTOMS",
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          "english": "SELECTED LAWS AND CUSTOMS",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "3. All fruits growing on trees take the blessing בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָעֵץ.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "4. Over fruits and vegetables growing in or from the ground one says בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה, mushrooms excepted, which belong to the following category.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "5. Meat, fish, eggs, milk, and juice take the blessing שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדְבָרוֹ.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "6. One recites the blessing שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדְבָרוֹ before drinking water solely when drinking to slake one's thirst.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "7. One recites the blessing בּוֹרֵא מִינֵי מְזוֹנוֹת over whatever is prepared from grain yet is not classed as bread, e.g., cake, pastry, cookies, etc. See below.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "8. On Shabbat and festivals, when the blessing over wine is said for Kiddush prior to washing for bread, one need not recite a further blessing over wine drunk in the course of the meal, inasmuch as it is covered by the first blessing over the Kiddush wine.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "9. In our day, given the manufacture of so many varied kinds of foodstuffs, the laws of blessings over foods can at times prove rather intricate, and often the question presents itself as to which blessing ought to be recited over a particular manufactured food. This may hinge on the source of a principal ingredient, for instance, whether it is a fruit grown on a tree or a vegetable, or whether it counts as \"bread\" or \"cake.\" Whenever one is uncertain concerning a blessing, one should consult a Rabbi.",
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          "english": "BENEDICTION AFTER A MEAL",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "1. Recitation of the Blessing After a Meal is a Biblical commandment, as it states, \"When you have eaten and are satiated, you shall bless the Lord your God.\" (Deuteronomy 8:10).",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "2. A few introductory Psalms come before the Blessing After a Meal. On weekdays, custom is to recite Psalms 137 and 67. The former recalls the Destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. \"Loss of the Beit Hamikdash ought to be felt especially at our dining table, for in many ways our table stands for the Altar of the Beit Hamikdash. Now is the moment to recall the saying, 'Woe unto the children who have been banished from their father's table'\" (Shelah). Psalm 67, by contrast, treats of the Messianic Era and focuses upon our people's final triumph, when even the nations of the earth will acknowledge the justice and righteousness of the Supreme Judge.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "3. Because we do not dwell upon the Destruction or like sorrowful events in our Shabbat and Yom Tov prayers, those two Psalms are left out on such days, and likewise on days when Tachnun is not said, such as Rosh Chodesh, Chol Hamoed, etc. In their place we recite two uplifting Psalms, 126 and 87, wherein Zion is recalled in a gladder setting—the Redemption and Return to Zion, and Zion's ultimate glory.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "4. Rinsing of the fingertips precedes the Blessing After a Meal. This rite is termed Mayim Acharonim (\"the final waters\", i.e., after the meal).",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "5. Water must be poured over the fingers into a vessel, not straight onto the floor where it would be trodden upon.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "6. Once washing is finished, the vessel holding the unclean water should be covered or taken away from the table.",
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          "type": "Passage",
          "english": "7. Mayim Acharonim denotes the dispelling of impurity and the gaining of holiness, that we may sanctify ourselves when blessing God for the food (after the meal). For hands soiled by the food render us unfit to say the Blessing After a Meal (Berachot 53b). Moreover, because certain salts are injurious to man, we are obliged to wash our hands after a meal so as to cleanse them of such salts and avert any possible harm (Eruvin 17b; Chullin 105a-b. See Shulchan Aruch Harav, O. Ch., 181:1). In spiritual terms, then, Mayim Acharonim denotes the stripping away of anything that is not holy, and constitutes an act of self-sanctification: \"'Sanctify yourselves' (Leviticus 11:44)—this alludes to Mayim Rishonim (the first waters; the washing of the hands before the meal), 'and you shall be holy' (ibid.)—this alludes to Mayim Acharonim\" (Berachot 53b).",
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