How is tonight different from every other night

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Email required. You may find it useful to have a Haggadah handy for that section. See my discussion of buying a haggadah if you don't already have one. Before eating, an observant Jew recites a blessing acknowledging G-d as the creator of the food. There are different blessings for different classes of food: one for "bread" including pizza, matzah, and many other foods made from dough derived from one of five grains , one for other grain foods, one for fruits, one for vegetables, one for wine and one for miscellaneous foods.

At the time that the Haggadah was written, bread was at the heart of every meal, and anything else eaten at the meal was considered secondary to the bread.

Whenever bread is a significant component of a meal, the blessing over bread is recited first and covers all of the food and beverages at the meal except wine. The blessing over bread is called motzi pronounced "MOH-tzee". See the text of this blessing under Shabbat Home Ritual. Before eating bread, we must also "wash" our hands. This washing is a ritual purification, not a soap-and-water washing, and is followed by a blessing called netilat yadayim "lifting up the hands".

Immediately after this washing and blessing, without interruption, we recite motzi and begin the meal. See the procedure and the text of this blessing under Shabbat Home Ritual. Observant Jews also recite a blessing after we eat. Like the blessing before eating, the blessing after eating varies depending on what we have eaten.

Also like the blessing before eating, if bread was a significant component of the meal, there is a blessing that takes precedence and covers everything else. This blessing after a bread meal is called Birkat ha-Mazon usually translated as "Grace After Meals," although it literally means "blessing of the food".

Reciting this blessing is referred to as bentsching Yiddish for "blessing". Learn more about this topic by watching this video from BimBam.

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