"It is forbidden to taste of the pleasures of this world without a blessing." --The Talmud
I think that the best way to discover what pronouncing blessings is all about is to pronounce a few. The practice itself will teach you what you need to know."
Pronounce a Silent Blessing — by Barbara Brown Taylor
http://www.awakin.org/read/audio.php?op=play&tid=2156

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