Igrot Kodesh · Letter 2053 — Tzedakah

[12 Adar 5713]

Concerning raw carrots [1], you will consult the laws of brachos [2], chapter 6, paragraph 11, which specify: "it is not the practice of the majority ... [3]."

This is mentioned in the Shaar HaTziyun on the Mishnah Berurah, chapter 205, paragraph 3.

Notes:

[1] And the brachah, in this case shehakol, which one must recite when consuming them, since it is the common practice to eat them cooked.

[2] Of the Alter Rebbe, which appear in his Siddur.

[3] "Of men to eat them raw, but rather to cook them." The Rebbe thus emphasizes that the majority practice must be taken into account, even if a minority of persons, on an individual basis, commonly consume them raw.

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