Ask the Rabbi
- Halacha
- The Meal - Washing, Eating and Benching
- Birkat Hamazon - Grace after the Meal
Question
If one eats only a kzayit of bread, does one wash with a bracha and recite birkat hamazon? Also, if one eats a very small amount of bread, does he wash beforehand (and with a bracha?)
Answer
For Hamotzi: any amount requires a Brachah. (Shulchan Aruch OC 168; 9)
For Netilat Yadayim: Less than Kazayit – no need for Netilah
More than Kabeitza – Netilah with Brachah
Between Kazayit and Kabeitza – Netilah without a Brachah (ibid 158)

abbreviated kitzur birchat hamazon
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 27, 5772

Birkat Hamazon
Various Rabbis | Adar I 22, 5768

Birkat Hamazon after Eating in Two Places
Various Rabbis | 1 Cheshvan 5765





