Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Halacha:

Brachot 

Collections: R' Torczyner Jews and Food

References: Berachot: 35A  

Description

The value of berachot on food as creating a mindset of eating as religious experience, imposing the ethical over the instinctive as in Gan Eden. A berachah makes us worthy of the food Hashem gave us in Gan Eden. Geared toward a group including people who lack strong background in Torah text study.