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why do so many people make a mezonos on pizza why is washing and benching so diffucult? nowadays people can bentch in like 2 minutes you dont have 2 minutes to give to hashem pizza is clealy hamotzie!
Wow finally a new topic that was never discussed here!
It’s not a matter of the time it takes, it’s a matter of what the proper bracha is. Would you wash and make hamotzi on a piece of sponge cake?
DaMoshe: I believe OP was referring to what he stated as clearly hamotzi as he stated in his post. Although I am curious as to what the tzdadim are for those who say having just one slice (and some cases even 2) is mezonos? (If Maran poskins that even on a small slice of bread you say hamotzi, a k’zayit for birkat hamazon, and a k’beitza for nt’y)
DaMoshe- If you eat the entire pan of sponge cake that might actually be the proper bracha. Regarding pizza we learned that one slice is considered a snack, and therefore the proper bracha is mezonos. If you’re eating two slices, than it’s considered a meal and the proper bracha is hamotzi. Now if someone is lazy to wash they can decide to eat one slice, make mezonos, eat it and make an al hamichya. Then a half hour later take another slice.
Several years ago my Rosh Yeshiva addressed this in a shiur. To the best of my recollection, here are some of the things he said:
1) Some pizza dough is made with water, some with may pairos.
2) Two or more slices require a hamotzi, even may pairos pizza.
Gamanit, I don’t disagree with you. Different poskim have different views on the bracha for pizza, and everyone should follow his or her posek. The OP seemed to imply that someone who could make either bracha, and a hamotzi is preferable. This is not the case.
Am I alone in thinking Pizza should have its own special brocha like wine does?
dafyomi2711: Because if my Rav has paskened that I should make a mezonos, that’s what I’m going to do!
Dafyomi: You’re also Vadai Yotzei with Mezonos.
The problem with the 1 slice/2 slice differentiation is that people base it off R’ Moshe. When pizza first came out in America and you bought a slice, it was from a 12-inch pie. Now the average New York slice is 18 inches.
Sam@: No more- in Monsey, half the stores are shrinking their pies to 15-16 inches. 🙁
But I’ve wondered- if you make a mezonos on one slice, intending only to have one, and then immediately afterward decide to have another, what do you do?
we hold that if it is ur meal u make a hamotzi. if u r having one peice as a snack then its mezones
bread is a snack ha I hear
Binyamin2711- I sometimes eat a small sandwich as a snack. If often feels weird to wash for a snack, but bread not made with juice doesn’t become mezonos just because you’re snacking on it.
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Are you two “related”??
@writersoul – if you made an initial mezonos on slice, because you had only one slice in mind, then proceeded to eat another, you can eat it and then bentsch. Don’t forget to clean up when you’re done.
Note to the general public that I’ve already seen expressed in other threads: please don’t use psaks from the CR unless you’ve asked your LOR about it. Ask for sources. Many might be personal opinions. No offence intended to anyone. I’m sure you’ll all make great poskim one day.
I spelled offense wrong, didn’t I.
if its a meal then its hamotzi
“why do so many people make a mezonos on pizza “
Is seems, at face value, that the Mechaber (siman 168) holds that only nuts, honey, etc baked with bread make it mezonot. Whereas bread baked with cheese or meat make it Hamotsi. We differentiate based on intent: dessert food vs dinner food.
But the Taz says that anything baked inside/on bread makes it Mezonot. According to the Taz, pizza is mezonot, unless one is Kove’a Se’uda. Therefore the only question is when is someone Kove’a Se’udat on mezonot.
Popa, you are not alone, but you need to compose it.
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