If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.