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asked 2 years ago

There is Elite white chocolate with cookie crumbs, as well as white Click with cookie crumbs.
The Orthodox Jewish Community Center notes on the package that it is blessed with everything.
The cookies, without a doubt, are not there just to stick or support, etc., they provide flavor, texture, and are even clearly distinguishable as crumbs (12.5% of the chocolate) – seemingly the blessing of chocolate should be food.
My instinct was “Where am I wrong?” (Do you think chocolate is blessed with food? Rach”l) but in light of the wonderful recent columns, maybe I should ask whether the Haredi community is right (the Badatz also casually dismissed “Chocolate? Everything!”)
What is the blessing and why?
Thank you very much.

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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago

First of all, I’m glad that my columns are having an impact. It’s definitely a positive impact and in the right direction. That’s exactly what I meant. Apparently you are right. See for example here: https://kavhalacha.co.il/%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%94/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA/2017-05-30-05-43-109 But on second thought, it’s not that simple. There is a common belief in the laws of blessings that the blessing depends on the question of what you eat? That is, if you ask a person what he eats, he will tell you that he eats chocolate (but that it tastes like cookie crumbs). Therefore, in my opinion, here is the blessing of everything. See about this here: https://din.org.il/2019/02/19/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93-%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA/ See also a discussion here that extends this to ice cream with cookies. And the above explanation was ignored: https://forum.otzar.org/viewtopic.php?t=57199 Although he saw in Frankl’s message twins what he quoted as “And this is the blessing.” In short, I think it’s all a blessing.

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שלמה replied 2 years ago

The Chazon Ish said about meatballs that are stuffed with 30-40 percent bread that you bless everything.
I understand this as the Rabbi said that the law of everything that is in it means that in general what defines the food revolves around the grain in it, which is not the case with meatballs and the same with chocolate.