Prayer and Blessings
Does the blessing over hamotzi exempt one from all other blessings?
Question
Hello, honor of the rabbi, I wanted to ask: when one recites the blessing over bread, does it exempt one from the other food blessings (mezonot, ha-adamah, ha-etz)?
Answer
Hello, blessed one
Not everything is exempt. Only things that come with the meal in order to satisfy and as part of the meal, such as meat, pasta, and the like, or things that come to enhance the bread, such as salads and the like.
Things that come as dessert, such as fruits or cakes and the like, require the blessing of mezonot.
Likewise, one must always recite a blessing over wine in the middle of a meal.
With blessing,
Binyamin Shmueli
