When a Mezonot food made from spelt, oats, or rye is present alongside grape, fig, and pomegranate (which are explicitly listed in the verse), which takes bracha priority?
Synopsis
The Mechaber rules that Mezonot from secondary grain species (spelt, oats, rye — not explicitly in the verse but subsumed under wheat/barley) takes priority even over the explicitly-mentioned vine, fig, and pomegranate because these grains have the Mezonot/HaMotzi/Birkat HaMazon distinction.
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When one has multiple foods before him with the same bracha and one is from the Shivat HaMinim (Seven Species), which food should be blessed first?
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3 opinions across 3 eras
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4 opinions
When one has both Borei Pri HaEtz and Borei Pri HaAdamah foods before him (with neither being preferred over the other), which bracha takes priority?
4 opinions
Among the Seven Species themselves, when brachot are the same, which species takes priority based on its position in the verse (Devarim 8:8)?
3 opinions
Do wheat and barley (and their species, including spelt, oats, rye) take bracha priority over the other Seven Species when they are eaten raw (koses — chewing raw grains)?
3 opinions across 3 eras
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What are the rules of bracha ordering when one does not intend to eat both foods — is there any priority obligation?
2 opinions
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