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Suppose you have a meal, drink, or snack, then you think you’ve had enough to eat to satiety and recite your bracha acharona, and then a few minutes later, you are hungry (or thirsty) once again, do you have to recite a bracha on the next batch of food or drink?

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Dear Rabbi, Recently, I’ve seen online some freed Israeli hostages saying a brief blessing in the presence of a group of other soldiers, friends and family. What is this blessing? Thanks, and I pray that the remaining hostages are brought home soon!

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Dear Rabbi, I have been reading about Jewish life recently, trying to understand what it means to be a Jew. One topic that intrigues me is the concept of saying a blessing. What does a blessing mean in Judaism? Thanks!

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My parents are divorced. When I recite Birkat Hamazon at one of their homes and I insert the paragraph for eating a one’s parent’s table, do I recite the words for both parents, or only the parent whose table it is?

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I have a new job where I have to catch a train very early in the morning. This leaves me with no time to do the full Shacharit before going to work. In the absence of time for the full Shacharit, what prayers must be recited by a certain time, and which ones can be delayed until later in the day?

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We recite Psalm 92 three times every Shabbat. Yes, I know the importance of each individual time we recite it. But is there a significance to the number three, the fact that we recite it thrice?

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I know you are not supposed to think G-d’s name or biblical verses while in the bathroom. But it’s all too easy to get a song stuck in your head and to not be able to get it out. What do you do about it when you are using the bathroom or taking a bath, and you get a song based on a tefilah, or possibly your synagogue’s tune for a tefilah stuck uncontrollably in your head?