tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post8516222812922544762..comments2024-03-29T06:05:20.562+03:00Comments on Life in Israel: The Supreme Court paskens the bracha of PringlesRafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-23201742867462153032009-06-09T14:14:45.585+03:002009-06-09T14:14:45.585+03:00I'm glad you see merit in my argument.I'm glad you see merit in my argument.Freelance Kiruv Maniac (Mr. Hyde)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10298176204317506218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-7247073070686060742009-06-08T23:57:23.490+03:002009-06-08T23:57:23.490+03:00FKM - thank you. I enjoyed your explanationFKM - thank you. I enjoyed your explanationRafi G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-51120601557626644772009-06-03T17:02:35.556+03:002009-06-03T17:02:35.556+03:00"I wonder if the British Supreme Court ruling..."<i>I wonder if the British Supreme Court ruling would have any affect on how poskim look at the chip and if from either side of the great Pringles debate a posek would change his opinion because of it...</i>"<br /><br />I sure hope to G-d that no posek would do such a thing. It would bespeak a total inferiority complex vis-a-vis the secular legal judgment.<br /><br />Brachos are not a matter of establishing molecular identity.<br />To my impoverished understanding<br />brachos are the expression of our <b>emotion</b> of gratitude to G-d by appreciating what He has made for our nutrition and enjoyment.<br /><br />If some food-stuff is not recognizable as a potato or any particular fruit or vegetable, TO MY SENSES, then my <b>emotion</b> of appreciation to G-d is not naturally going to be for His making potatoes. It's for making "this food-stuff" Thus a shehakol.<br /><br />My emotion of gratitude is elicited most powerfully by my own direct experience. <br />To make a ho-adamah simply because that's what a chemical lab analysis determines the food to be, is to totally cerebrealize the bracha and suck out it's emotional factor.<br /><br />Making brachos should never be reduced to a technical exercise of correctly identifying a given food. <br /><br />(I imagine the opinions of those who say a Ho-adama should be made is because this chip is so typical of whole potatoes in every that our senses realize its made from potatoes anyway.)Freelance Kiruv Maniac (Mr. Hyde)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10298176204317506218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-46951790095080176562009-06-02T14:05:37.442+03:002009-06-02T14:05:37.442+03:00Awesome post :)Awesome post :)Jameel @ The Muqatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15890095633246557332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-17131057395711533402009-06-02T13:50:10.766+03:002009-06-02T13:50:10.766+03:00anonymous -
what are you doing reading this blog ...anonymous - <br />what are you doing reading this blog in your beis medrash. You don;t want the owner of this blog to be liable for your bittul torahdaf neighbornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-86136255138024386822009-06-02T13:31:31.592+03:002009-06-02T13:31:31.592+03:00Anonymous -- call pikud haoref at 1207. You should...Anonymous -- call pikud haoref at 1207. You should also call your local municipality.Mikeagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827275300296295639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-40854586936339671202009-06-02T13:14:08.285+03:002009-06-02T13:14:08.285+03:00Did you hear the air raid siren today? I just real...Did you hear the air raid siren today? I just realized now that I didnt hear it at all - and neither did anyone else in my Beis medrash? Is there someone that we should inform?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-47319079729452602202009-06-02T09:41:24.223+03:002009-06-02T09:41:24.223+03:00I guess the only debate left is matiring agunas no...I guess the only debate left is matiring agunas now that they decided this shailo finally!shaya gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-75458825257489589372009-06-02T09:14:12.328+03:002009-06-02T09:14:12.328+03:00urely, you mean "crisp." :)urely, you mean "crisp." :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com