Q&A: Questions about Blessings
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Questions about Blessings
Question
Hello, honored Rabbi,
1. If a person forgot to recite the initial blessing and ate an olive-bulk, does he recite the after-blessing?
2. If a person recited the blessing "by whose word all things came to be" over, say, cheese, and ate less than an olive-bulk, but afterward drank water, does he recite the "Borei Nefashot" after-blessing?
Answer
1. Certainly. Does one transgression require yet another transgression? And in the language of the Sages: One who ate garlic and his breath smells—should he go back and eat more garlic?!
2. Two foods combine, but not food and drink.