Thursday
15 Shvat; Tu B'Shvat 5771
January 20,2011
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1) The prohibition of Borer only applies during the process of preparing the food for consumption, but does not apply to when the food is actually being consumed.
Thus, if one is eating or drinking and senses that within the mouthful of food/drink there is a foreign substance that must be removed (e.g. a hair, a pebble or an egg shell) it is permitted to remove this waste and it is not an issue of Borer. (See Chazon Ish Siman 54:1)
This is the best Halachic option for removing watermelon pits, fish bones and similar items which are difficult to remove in a halachically permissible manner before eating; once they are in the mouth they may be removed L'Chatchilah. (See Chazon Ish 54:4)
2)If one has a drink which contains in it unwanted particles (e.g. sediment in wine or pulp in orange juice, or even insects) it is permitted to put a piece of material over the cup and drink through the material and thus keep the particles away, and this is not an issue of Borer. (Shulchan Aruch Siman 319:16)
The above may only be done during the actual eating or drinking, and not while holding the food/drink in their hand and about to be consume it, as doing it then, even though one may say "I am already in middle of drinking", is a transgression of Borer. (Chazon Ish ibid. See Biur Halacha Siman 319:4 Dibur Hamaschil HaBorer P'Soles for a more detailed discussion about this)
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 pages on the Halacha For Today website.
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.
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Reader's Question:
If I recite a Bracha "Borei Pri Ha'Eitz on some fruit, and then some other fruits are brought out which I wasn't aware of at the time of my Bracha, am I required to recite a new Bracha or does my Bracha cover any fruit that is part of this "meal"?
Answer:
If at the time of the Bracha it was clear that you are now sitting down to a [non bread] "meal" (K'vius), no new Bracha is required on any new foods of the same Bracha that are brought out afterwards. (As one who sits down to lunch has in mind to exempt anything that may be served. Likewise, one who sits down to a fruit meal, exempts all fruit that may be brought out, as is common on Tu B'Shvat.) (Mishna Berura Siman 206:20-22. See also Sha'ar HaTziyun 206:25)
If , however, you just had one fruit as a snack and after it was consumed you decide to have a different fruit which you did not intend to eat at the time of your Bracha, a new Bracha will be required.
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Wishing all my readers a fulfilling and uplifting Tu B'Shvat!
CHIZUK CORNER
As a Zechus for the Refuah Shelaima of one of the Gedolei HaDor, the Telzer Rosh Yeshiva , HaRav Chaim Stein Shlita, R' Chaim Yaakov ben Chasya Miriam, B'soch Sha'ar Cholei Yisroel, we will B'Ezras Hashem post here each day a short inspirational thought to help us all improve our lives and grow in our service of our Father in heaven, HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
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אל תתיאש מן הרחמים
Chizuk For Today:
Why is it that we must remember Yetziyas Mitzrayim at least twice a day, each time we say Kriyas Shema?
True, it was one of the world's outstanding events--but
Matan Torah was as well, and we have no similar twice a day
requirement!
The Mitzvah of Zecher LeYetzias Mitzrayim is not just
24/7/365, but 24/7/365 times 2! Why?!"
The Spinka Rebbe beautifully answered that it is because we must constantly remind ourselves that even when we were on the brink of disaster, about to plummet from the 49th level of Tumah(spiritual impurity),to a point of no return, IT WAS THEN that the TURNAROUND
occurred--and we were redeemed.
Zecher LeYetzias Mitzrayim provides every Jew with hope, inspiration, and guidance especially in these times, the last remnants of an exceedingly long and horribly difficult Golus.
We too can be Zoche to the TURNAROUND, through our sincere prayers and
deeds! Zecher LeYetzias Mitzrayim every day--twice a day!
Submitted by a daily reader, M.B.; Related by Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss Shlita at the Hakhel Yarchei Kallah
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