Reply To: What would you say? – Hilchos Brochos

PAA – ברוך מחייה מתים!! Are you lurking and just not posting, or did you pop back for a one time visit?!

I tried to preempt your point in one of my earlier posts. I don’t think you are looking at this the right way.

You are looking at the brocho being chal on a מאכל. I look at it as being חל on an אכילה. According to you, why does שינוי מקום or hesech hada’as make a difference? (And if you say that ‘ה is קונה it with יאוש ושינוי רשות, I won’t laugh.) The way I undertsand it, these are all parameters to define what constitutes one ‘achila’.

By way of support, I have seen Achronim (I can’t for the life of me remember; I saw it about two years ago while flicking through a ליקוט הלכות ברכות written by a Rabbi Steinhaus. He brings down a lot of random שו”ת about Hilchos brochos, and I saw these leshonos there) who refer to a ברכה as a Pidyon (the gemara says you are מועל if you eat without a bracha) or a Kinyan (it becomes yours). They sound like they understand like you.