Pat Haba B'Kisnin

Hello, esteemed Rabbi, Regarding Pat Haba B'Kisnin, 1. If one eats the amount equivalent to a meal from a yeast cake with soft dough, should one bless 'Hamotzi' and 'Birkat Hamazon'? 2. What is the definition of "bread form" on which 'Hamotzi' is blessed? And what is the definition of a pastry that "does not have the form of bread" and even if one eats a lot, 'Hamotzi' is not blessed? 3. What blessing is recited over a tortilla? 4. Why do Ashkenazim bless 'Hamotzi' on matzah, and Sephardim bless 'Mezonot'? 5. According to Sephardim, are there exceptional cases where desserts require the blessing 'Mezonot' before 'Birkat Hamazon'? 6. What are dry pretzels, does bread dried in a toaster become 'Mezonot'? With respect and thanks

Hello 

1. A yeast cake with thick dough, meaning the dough is solid and not liquid. In any case, if one eats the amount equivalent to a meal, one blesses 'Hamotzi' and 'Birkat Hamazon'. 

2. If the pastry is very thin, or it is boiled and not baked.

3. Its blessing is 'Mezonot', because it is very thin. 

4. Sephardim bless 'Mezonot', because it crumbles. Ashkenazim bless 'Hamotzi', because they are accustomed to eating them as a meal.

5. If the conditions of Pat Haba B'Kisnin are certainly met, such as all conditions being fulfilled, one blesses even during the meal. 

6. Cookies or cakes that are crunchy and brittle. Bread does not lose its 'Hamotzi' blessing by being dried and made into toast or croutons. Only when the pastry is initially made to be dried and turned into a crunchy food, then its blessing is 'Mezonot'. 

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