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