Siman - Berachos Daf 38
- Food or drinks with medicinal purpose on Shabbos
It is permitted to consume any or food or drink for medicinal purposes on Shabbos, since the act is considered one of eating rather than healing.
- "Hamotzi” or “Motzi”?
There is a machlokes regarding whether the nusach of the berachah on bread should be “Motzi” or “Hamotzi”:
- The Rabbanan say one should say Hamotzi lechem min ha’aretz, which means, He who brought forth bread from the ground, in the past tense.
- R’ Nechemiah says that when Hashem is referred to as the “Hamotzi,” the reference is to what He has not yet done—take Bnei Yisroel out of Mitzrayim—but will do in the future. His proof is the pasuk (Shemos 6:7) which says המוציא אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים, referring to Hashem taking Bnei Yisrael out of Mitzrayim in the near future. Since that connotation would be not be fitting for the berachah, one should say “Motzi,” meaning Who brought forth, in the past tense.
-The halachah follows the Rabbanan.
- The berachah on cooked vegetables (שלקות)
The appropriate berachah on cooked vegetables(שלקות) is often ha’adamah but sometimes shehakol:
- When cooking elevates the vegetable to the primary form in which it’s eaten, as, for example, with a potato, then the berachah on the raw vegetable is shehakol on for the cooked vegetable ha’adamah.
-When cooking is not the primary way to eat the vegetable, as, for example, with a leek, then the berachah on the raw vegetable is ha’adamah and on the cooked vegetable shehakol.
