Episode Notes
This week’s sugya discusses the concept of shiur as it pertains to birkas haneninin. It is interesting to note that, as we learned last week, Birchas Hamazon is D’oraisa and Birkas Hanehenin is D’rabanan – yet, the shiur for Birchas Hamazon is much greater (i.e. one needs to be satiated) than the shiur for Birkas Hanehenin. We discuss the reasons for this difference and if one should still be machmir in the shiur for Birkas Hanehenin. This has ramifications regarding when one can speak after reciting a bracha and eating – does he need to finish a kzayis? It also pertains to the Matzoh that we eat at the Pesach seder – do we need to eat two kzaysim – one for the mitzvah of Matzoh and one for the bracha of Hamotzi?