Si trajeron ante él el maliach [algo maluach (salado)] al principio, y pan con él, él bendice al maliach y exime el pan; porque el pan es auxiliar de él. [Uno que tenía una gran porción de frutas especialmente dulces come algo salado después para "romper" la dulzura en su cuerpo. Y debido a que no puede comer el maliach por sí mismo, come un poco de pan con él. Pero el maliach en sí mismo es primario, y el pan es auxiliar para él.] Esta es la regla: en cada caso de primario y auxiliar, uno bendice al primario y exime al auxiliar.
Bartenura on Mishnah Berakhot
מליח – every salty thing.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Berakhot
Introduction
This mishnah continues to teach what blessing one recites when one is eating two foods that have different blessings.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Berakhot
שהפת טפלה לו – Whomever ate a large meal [consisting of] extremely sweet fruits, eats afterwards something salty to sever the moisture that is stuck is attached in his body on account of the large amount of fruits [consumed], and because he is incapable of eating something salty alone, he eats from the bread with it. But the salty [food] alone is essential and the bread is secondary to it.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Berakhot
If they brought in front of him salted food at the beginning of the meal and bread with it, he blesses over the salted food and thereby exempts the bread, since the bread is ancillary to it. This is the general principle: whenever there is one kind of food that is the main [food] and another that is ancillary, he blesses over the main food and thereby exempts the ancillary. The general rule in this mishnah is straightforward. If one has two foods to eat together, one recites the blessing over the food that is considered to be the main food and does not need to recite any blessing over the ancillary food. This is true even if the ancillary food is generally deemed to be the more important of the two, such as bread. We learned above in mishnah five that if one blesses over bread, he exempts the accompanying food. Here we learn that if the function of the bread was ancillary to the main food, then he recites the blessing over the main food and thereby exempts the bread.
