Take the Food Blessings Quiz

Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.

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Chame Moises New York June 4, 2025

According to a certain (Sefardic) Posek, authentic New York Bagels are never Hamotzi, because they’re first boiled, then baked. Once boiled, they no longer qualify as bread, since making bread consists in baking dough - not boiling it. Reply

Avner December 26, 2023

Thank you for the test!! I got a 9/10😊 Reply

Alan November 22, 2023

9/0 I messed up on the grapes, I thought it was supposed to be HaGafen. Reply

Sheva Brooklyn August 17, 2023

Thanks 6/10 Reply

Amy NM August 14, 2023

I’ve always known wine and grape blessing were different. I need to remember what comes from a tree and the ground though LoL. I don’t think of grape vines as trees . I wonder what the barucha is for certain nuts as some come from trees 🤔 Reply

Mrs. Sima Shain Spring Valley August 15, 2023

in response to Amy:

All nuts except for peanuts are borei pri ha'etz. Reply

Chame Moises New York June 4, 2025

in response to Amy:

Fruits, including nuts and grapes, grow on woody plants. The blessing is on the fruit of the trees (woody plants). Bananas don’t grow on real trees. They grow on giant herbaceous plants, called pseudostems, hence the blessing is on the fruit of the earth. Reply

Amy Lapidus-Pedram NM August 16, 2023

in response to Mrs. Sima Shain:

Thank you!! Reply

FY Sunnyvale CA August 11, 2023

10/10. I can't until wine comes from cows (see question #8). Reply

Favoured South Africa August 11, 2023

2/10
I did not know that each food has its own blessings.

This is so beautiful, I want to learn more Reply

David Harold Chester Petach Tikva, Israel August 11, 2023

I am disappointed in my mistakes in answering here, but what bothers me the most is that according to these answers, grapes and wine have different blessings. Is this not an error on the part of the quiz maker? Reply

Anonymous August 25, 2023

in response to David Harold Chester:

Grapes are Haeitz as are all fruits that grow on trees. On the wine however, since it is considered a important drink, there is separate Bracha on it. Reply

Rivka Rachum West Orange August 11, 2023

7/10. Not what I expected. I have two questions. Why do we not say boreh pri hagafen when we eat grapes? And what is the difference between shehachol and mezonot? Thank you! Reply

Menachem Posner August 11, 2023

in response to Rivka Rachum:

a. Grapes are fruit, and we say ha'etz over them, just like any other fruit (making the afterblessing reserved for the 7 Kinds with which Israel is blessed. Hagafen is only for grape juice and wine.

b. Mezonot is for things made with grain that are not quote bread. This would include, cakes, cookies, pasta, etc. Shehakol, on the other hand, is for anything that is not covered by any other blessing, including drinks (besides for wine), meat and dairy. Reply

Netanyah Wisconsin August 12, 2023

in response to Rivka Rachum:

Check & read the "Learn more about...." links listed on the boxes for the blessings and their differences. Reply

Ursula Brittany August 15, 2023

in response to Menachem Posner:

We in Baveria always said a blessing when the bread was cut. Ich weiss das blessing noch in meinen Kopf. When a new building was made it was alwys blessed by the parish priest. To Ephiphanie das Haus wurde gerauchert, Speicher auch. Und am Samstag wurde geputzt. Reply

Rivka Rachum West Orange August 16, 2023

in response to Netanyah:

Thank you, I usually do, bit there are still questions that come up. Reply

Lauren Spector Bend August 10, 2023

7/10 Have a Healthy, Happy and Peaceful Shabbat. Reply

Seth Maven MD MN USA August 10, 2023

10/10!

After 4/10 & 6/10
Used as an educational tool,
the quizzes are, well, educational.

Be well.
-SM Reply

C Tidwell August 10, 2023

Is it lunch yet? Reply

Ari August 10, 2023

Love these quizzes and everything y’all do! Very blessed to have you all and all you do. Thank you and Moshiach now! :) Reply

Jack Harpers Ferry, WV August 10, 2023

#9 - bagel with schmear - hamotzi is the correct brocha? There are multiple foods there, so would it not be hamotzi v shehakol? Reply

Rhonda Israel August 11, 2023

in response to Jack:

When you make a hamotzie it covers everything in that meal. Reply

A. K. August 10, 2023

I only got 6 right. And to think that Noahides also has to say these blessings. Reply

Kelly Wisconsin, USA August 10, 2023

Okay I’m hungry Reply

Matel Tobin August 10, 2023

One says haetz before eating avacado? Reply

Chabad.org Staff August 10, 2023

in response to Matel Tobin:

Yes, avocado is considered a fruit and one says haetz. Reply

Rivka Rachum West Orange August 11, 2023

in response to Chabad.org Staff:

Then, what do we say for fruits like strawberries and other berries and cranberries? Reply

Eliezer Zalmanov for Chabad.org August 13, 2023

in response to Rivka Rachum:

Most berries are Haadamah. Reply

Nancy L Sylvain Albuquerque August 9, 2023

Just yesterday I told a man we have so much to be thankful for all the foods he made and all the different varieties of one food alone. He is ever wonderful delightful I love my Father more than my own life for what is life without his gracious love? Reply

Andrew Elder Bryan, OH August 16, 2023

in response to Nancy L Sylvain:

Well said Ms Sylvain

Shalom Shalom Reply

Alshoukri Germany August 9, 2023

Thank you very much for your interesting Quiz. 10/10 תודה רבה Reply

Rita Forbes Clinton August 9, 2023

Good🌻Morning,

What a delectable quiz! I would love to have a bagel with lox right about now [8/10]. :)

Be Blessed! Reply

Andrew Elder Bryan, Ohio August 10, 2023

in response to Rita Forbes:

Shalom Rita! Sounds good! As I like to say, "save me a bight" 7/10

Shalom y'all =)) Reply

Andrew Elder Bryan, OH August 10, 2023

in response to Andrew Elder:

better the second time, 9/10 Thank you Chabad!

Shalom Y'all =)) Reply

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