When someone makes fruits the primary accompaniment to their bread (kovea seudah on fruit), are those fruits exempt from a blessing even before eating?
Synopsis
When fruit is the sole accompaniment to bread at a meal, opinions differ on whether the person may eat it without bread first and still be exempt. The Mechaber cites a dispute; Rema adds that if one's core meal-setting was upon the fruit from the start, no blessing is needed even without returning to eat them with bread at the end.
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