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theprof1
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Yes its orange and its juice. But what brocho do you make? Of course we know that everybody makes a shehakol. The gemora and halocho seem quite clear about squeezing juice from a fruit that its a shehakol. But the gemora and halocho also add something. If the fruit is grown ONLY for its juice, then the juice takes on the halocho of its fruit. So tut sodeh strawberries would be an adomo and oranges would be a ho’etz. So paskins Rav Abadi. And everybody paskins against him. Rav Spitzer in his sefer paskins, after much pilpul, like Rav Abadi, that oj is a ho’etz, but says that le’masseh, the whole world makes a shehakol and we should go with the minhag yisroel.

Fact is that Rav Spitzer’s psak is partly correct. The psak that its a ho’etz like Rav Abadi is correct. But I’m nots ure if the minhag is correct. If the halocho is really a ho’etz, then we should make a ho’etz. The minhag yisroel as a shehakol was before Tropicana not from concentrate juice from oranges grown in orchards specifically for juice, and specifically not for eating. Therefore the psak of the gemora and poskim would be to make a ho’etz. All that said, I make a shehakol because Rav Spitzer’s final psak that minhag yisroel is a shehakol, as wrong as I think that is, but since everybody paskins shehakol, the halocho becomes like that since the torah says listen to the rov gedolim no matter what.