If one washed and ate only a tiny piece of bread (they did not like the bread) is one supposed to say Birchas Hamazon? If not, what does one Bentch? (They ate other foods in this meal as well).

  All articles of food combine to make up a Kazayis. So, if you ate half a Kazayis of something that requires the after-Brachah, Borei Nefashos Rabbos, and then you ate another half a Kazayis…

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When does Tekufas Nissan start? Meaning when could you make the Bracha on trees? (Since it is a leap year). The trees that we always go to have flowers now, but they might not have flowers in a month.

  Tekufas Nissan this year (5780) corresponds to Tuesday, 13 Nissan. However, the Bracha on the trees should be said in the month of Nissan, not earlier or later. It…

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I just read a question on your website that someone asked about making a Challah with milk, and the answer was that it is Mezonos because there was more other liquid than water. But isn’t standard milk sold in stores very watered-down? That should possibly make it that there is actually more water than other liquid, no?

The original question is here. Answer: Milk is highly regulated and there is a “standard of identity” that cows’ milk cannot include added water and be called milk.

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