Prayer and Blessings
Choosing the Blessing for Bread Products
Question
If I am not sure whether the blessing for the bagel is mezonot or hamotzi, which should I prefer to recite?
Answer
Greetings and blessings.
A bagel—being a type of bread—typically requires the blessing of hamotzi.
However, pretzels are considered mezonot.
With blessings,
Benjamin Shamali
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