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Another Daf-Yomi treasure.
We have a number of different blessings to say before eating various kinds of foods, but if you have the same food twice in one meal, one blessing does for the both of them. Like if you have two glasses of wine.
So, what constitutes one meal? Certainly if you make the huge long grace-after-meals, anything after that doesn't count as part of the meal, but what if you clear the table and bring out something else? Does dessert require a blessing of its own? If you had sandwiches, cleared them away, and then had a bready sort of cake for dessert, does the cake need a new blessing?
The gemara tells a story about Rav Huna, who had finished having dinner with Rav Nahman, and was having some cake. He didn't believe that you need to make a different blessing on dessert, so he didn't. He had thirteen pieces of cake, and Rav Nahman said "Dude! No-one eats that much cake! You should make a blessing on that!"
We have a number of different blessings to say before eating various kinds of foods, but if you have the same food twice in one meal, one blessing does for the both of them. Like if you have two glasses of wine.
So, what constitutes one meal? Certainly if you make the huge long grace-after-meals, anything after that doesn't count as part of the meal, but what if you clear the table and bring out something else? Does dessert require a blessing of its own? If you had sandwiches, cleared them away, and then had a bready sort of cake for dessert, does the cake need a new blessing?
The gemara tells a story about Rav Huna, who had finished having dinner with Rav Nahman, and was having some cake. He didn't believe that you need to make a different blessing on dessert, so he didn't. He had thirteen pieces of cake, and Rav Nahman said "Dude! No-one eats that much cake! You should make a blessing on that!"
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