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1. Food or drinks with medicinal purpose on Shabbos
It is permitted to consume any or food or drink for medicinal purposes on Shabbos, since the act
is considered one of eating rather than healing.
2. ”Hamotzi” or “Motzi”?
There is a machlokes regarding whether the nusach of the berachah on bread should be “Motzi”
or “Hamotzi”:
- The Rabbanan say one should say Hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz, which means, He who
brought forth bread from the ground, in the past tense.
- R’ Nechemiah says that when Hashem is referred to as the “Hamotzi,” the reference is to
what He has not yet done—take Bnei Yisroel out of Mitzrayim—but will do in the future. His
proof is the pasuk (Shemos 6:7) which says מצרים סבלות מתחת אתכם המוציא ,referring to
Hashem taking Bnei Yisrael out of Mitzrayim in the near future. Since that connotation would be
not be fitting for the berachah, one should say “Motzi,” meaning Who brought forth, in the past
tense.
- The halachah follows the Rabbanan.
3. The berachah on cooked vegetables (שלקות(
The appropriate berachah on cooked vegetables )שלקות )is often ha’adamah but sometimes
shehakol:
- When cooking elevates the vegetable to the primary form in which it’s eaten, as, for
example, with a potato, then the berachah on the raw vegetable is shehakol on for the cooked
vegetable ha’adamah.
- When cooking is not the primary way to eat the vegetable, as, for example, with a leek,
then the berachah on the raw vegetable is ha’adamah and on the cooked vegetable shehakol.
Siman – Chicken soup (a davar lach)
The sick yeshiva bochur made Hamotzi on the challahs, before he was served some medicinal
chicken soup together with some cooked vegetables.
Key words – Hamotzi, medicinal, cooked vegetables
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1. Food or drinks with medicinal purpose on Shabbos
It is permitted to consume any or food or drink for medicinal purposes on Shabbos, since the act
is considered one of eating rather than healing.
2. ”Hamotzi” or “Motzi”?
There is a machlokes regarding whether the nusach of the berachah on bread should be “Motzi”
or “Hamotzi”:
- The Rabbanan say one should say Hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz, which means, He who
brought forth bread from the ground, in the past tense.
- R’ Nechemiah says that when Hashem is referred to as the “Hamotzi,” the reference is to
what He has not yet done—take Bnei Yisroel out of Mitzrayim—but will do in the future. His
proof is the pasuk (Shemos 6:7) which says מצרים סבלות מתחת אתכם המוציא ,referring to
Hashem taking Bnei Yisrael out of Mitzrayim in the near future. Since that connotation would be
not be fitting for the berachah, one should say “Motzi,” meaning Who brought forth, in the past
tense.
- The halachah follows the Rabbanan.
3. The berachah on cooked vegetables (שלקות(
The appropriate berachah on cooked vegetables )שלקות )is often ha’adamah but sometimes
shehakol:
- When cooking elevates the vegetable to the primary form in which it’s eaten, as, for
example, with a potato, then the berachah on the raw vegetable is shehakol on for the cooked
vegetable ha’adamah.
- When cooking is not the primary way to eat the vegetable, as, for example, with a leek,
then the berachah on the raw vegetable is ha’adamah and on the cooked vegetable shehakol.
Siman – Chicken soup (a davar lach)
The sick yeshiva bochur made Hamotzi on the challahs, before he was served some medicinal
chicken soup together with some cooked vegetables.
Key words – Hamotzi, medicinal, cooked vegetables