Daily Halacha - If one has food with a certain blessing and food with an uncertain blessing, which should come first?
When faced with foods requiring different blessings, what's the proper order? Learn the correct approach based on Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's rulings
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If one has food with a certain blessing and food with an uncertain blessing, which should come first?
When eating a fruit whose blessing is certain, while the second fruit's blessing is disputed among the authorities, one should focus their first blessing on the fruit with the certain blessing, explicitly intending not to include the questionable fruit, and then may recite a separate blessing for it. For example, if presented with an apple and a banana, one should intend for the "borei pri ha'etz" blessing over the apple not to cover the banana (since there is uncertainty whether its blessing is "borei pri ha'etz" or "borei pri ha'adama"), and then one may recite "borei pri ha'adama" over the banana, as is customary.
[Yabia Omer 8, 26].
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