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

God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.

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

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

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

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.