Yesterday's Halachot:
Taken from Rav Ovadia’s Halacha Emails:
Taken from Rav Ovadia’s Halacha Emails:
1. The land of Israel was praised with seven species
of fruits as the verse (Devarim 8,8) states, “A land of wheat and barley,
grapevines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey.” (“Honey”
here refers to dates as is explained in the Talmud Yerushalmi Chapter 1 of
Masechet Bikurim, Halacha 3). The blessing on any one of the Seven Species
precedes
all other fruits. For instance, if one has oranges and dates or
almonds and raisins (raisins are considered one of the Seven Species for they
are a derivative of the grapevine) in front of him, he must first recite a
blessing on the fruit that is from the Seven Species and he may then continue
to eat whatever he pleases. Maran Harav Ovadia Yosef Shlit”a writes that even
if the fruits that are not from the Seven Species, for instance the apple or
almond in the above case, are dearer to him (for example, if one enjoys apples
more than dates or almonds more than raisins) still in all the blessing must be
recited on the fruit that is one of the Seven Species first. This is because
their precedence in berachot is not because they are dearer, rather it is
because of their innate significance in that they were mentioned in the above
verse; this significance does not vary from person to person.
2. The Torah states: “A land of wheat and
barley, grapevines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of oil-bearing olives
and honey”. The word “land” is
mentioned twice in this verse. If so, the fruit of the “olive” is mentioned
first after the word “land” (“a land
of olive oil”) while the fruit of the “grapevine” is mention third after the
word “land” (“A land of wheat and
barley, grapevines”). Thus, if one has olives and grapes in front of him, he
must recite the blessing on the olives first for they are closer to the word “land” in the verse, as opposed to grapes
which are further away from the word “land”
so they are of lesser importance.
Just
as olives come before grapes, similarly dates come before grapes as well for
dates were written second after the word “land”
(“a land of olive oil and dates”) while grapes are only mentioned third after
the first “land” in the verse (“A
land of wheat and barley, grapevines”). For the same reason, dates take
precedence over figs and pomegranates for the importance of a fruit is measured
by its proximity to the word “land”
in the verse.
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