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1)One who recites a Bracha on a food/drink item that was not in front of them, but was accessible (e.g. the item was in an unlocked cupboard in that room or in an adjacent room) B'dieved the Bracha is acceptable.
Similarly, one who opens a sink faucet or turns on a water fountain and recites a Bracha on the water is Yotzei B'dieved, even though the water that he/she drinks is not the same water that was there at the time the Bracha was recited, as this was the explicit intent at the time of the Bracha. (Mishna Berura Siman 206:19)
However, L'Chatchilah the item should be in front of you, and in your hand [or in a cup, in your hand in the case of water] when the Bracha is recited. (Mishna Berura Siman 206:170)
2)If a Bracha was recited on a food/drink item, and before you were able to take a bite it fell on the floor and became repulsive to eat, or the drink totally spilled out of the cup, if a drop is left that is able to be eaten/drunk that should be done in order to avoid a Bracha L'vatalah. (Mishna Berura Siman 206:24)
If not even a drop of the food/drink remained, and another food/drink of the same Bracha is in front of him/her or was going to be eaten anyway, the new food should be eaten and is exempted by the original Bracha.
However, if the new food was not in front of him/her and he/she did not have in mind to eat it, a new Bracha must be recited, even if the new food is of an identical variety as the first food. The reason for this is that a Bracha on a food only exempts a similar food that wasn't there at the time of the Bracha, after some of the original food was tasted. (Mishna Berura Siman 206:24-26. See also Shulchan Aruch HaRav Siman 206:11 and Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Siman 50:64)
QUESTION & ANSWER CORNER:
Reader Submitted Questions of interest on topics related to Halachos we covered, as well as other interesting topic and Answers. Taken from the Q & A page on the Halacha For Todaywebsite.
Although the answers I give to questions are taken directly from the Sifrei HaPoskim, and aren't my own, they are still for study purposes only, NOT for Psak Halacha.
I heard from Rav Avraham Feuer shlit"a (he is son in law of Rav Gifter Zatzal) that in addition to 100 brachos, one is obligated to say 80 times Amein to somebody else's bracha. I haven't seen a source for this ruling. Could you help?
Answer:
Rav Feuer shlit"a is of course correct, though he probably said 90, and not 80. There is indeed, according to many Poskim, an obligation to answer Amen 90 times each day. (See Mishna Berura Siman 6:13 and Sha'arei Teshuva 6:5).
Our holy sages, the Chazal tell us
תנא דבי אליהו כל השונה הלכות בכל יום מובטח לו שהוא בן עולם הבא, שנאמר הליכות עולם לו, אל תקרי הליכות אלא הלכות - one who studies [at least two] Halachos daily is assured a portion in Olam Haba - the world to come. (:מגילה כ"ח )
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