JUDAISM
PRAYING WITH UNDERSTANDING

PART 17 : Berakhot-Blessings (VII)

by RAYMOND J. RAMRAJKAR

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Dear All

Shalom

First of all let me wish you and your families "SHANA TOVA" and pray that your names be inscribed in the "Good Book of Life".

With great joy and pleasure, I present you with Part 17 titled "Berakhot - Blessing (VII) - Grace after Meal (1/2)" of my series "PRAYING WITH UNDERSTANDING".

In the earlier part 16 we studied blessings before partaking. In this part we understand how important it is to Bless G-d after partaking.

How fortunate we are that when we do Grace after meal, we are actually continuing the great tradition of Prophet Abraham and the Berakhah that we recite today is what Moshe Rabbenu composed and recited nearly 3000 years ago during the Exodus.

I have also attached audio recording of nearly 2000 year old traditionalTsur Me'shelo song (recorded in my voice) along with text, translation and transliteration of this beautiful song in this part. Thie recording is in four parts corresponding to its four paragraphs. You may play individual file or select all and then play the whole song. These files can be opened in WMPlayer or any standard media player.

You may surf this link http://berachot.org/foods/index.htm as a guide for blessings before and after partaking on different foods.

I hope that you will find this article inspiring.

Do drop in a line on what you feel about this part. Also please forward this to your contacts.

I thank you all for your messages of advice, guidance and encouragement.

Best regards

Raymond Jacob Ramrajkar