Basic Blessings

Blessings

Birchot Hanehenin

Birchot Hamitzvot

Birchot Hodaah

Birchot Hanehenin

These are blessings recited before eating, drinking or smelling nice things.

• Eating bread
• Eating other foods from grain
• Eating fruit
• Drinking wine or grape juice
• Eating foods grown in the ground
• General blessing for other foods and drink
• Smelling fragrant spices
• Smelling the fragrance of shrubs and trees
• Smelling the fragrance of plants and herbs
• Smelling fragrant fruit

Birchot Hamitzvot

These are blessings recited before doing a mitzva.

• Putting up a Mezuzah

Birchot Hodaah

These are blessings that express praise and thanks to HaShem.

• Modeh (Moda) Ani
• Ma Tovu
• Shalom Aleyhem