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Blessings: For Someone Else: Pleasure/Birchot Nehenin and Praise-Thanks/Shevach V'Hoda'a
You may say these blessings for someone else only if you also need to say the blessing for yourself:
- Blessings for Enjoyment (“birchot nehenin”—such as for food or drink), and
- Blessings of Praise and Thanks (shevach v'hoda'a--such as on rainbows or seeing large mountains)
Three Main Categories of Blessings
There are three main categories of blessings:
- Enjoyment (birchot nehenin), such as on foods and scents.
- Praise and Thanks to God (shevach v'hoda'a), such as when saying she'hecheyanu, on seeing mountains and the sea, or when good happens to us.
- Commandments/Mitzvot (birchot mitzva), such as reading the Torah, using the lulav, or lighting Shabbat candles.