Se gli portavano davanti maliach [qualcosa di maluach (salato)] all'inizio, e il pane con esso, benediceva il maliach ed esonera il pane; poiché il pane è secondario ad esso. [Uno che ha avuto un grande aiuto di frutti particolarmente dolci mangia in seguito qualcosa di salato per "spezzare" la dolcezza del suo corpo. E poiché non può mangiare il maliach da solo, mangia del pane con esso. Ma il maliach di per sé è primario, e il pane è secondario ad esso.] Questa è la regola: in ogni caso di primario e accessorio, si benedice il primario ed esonera il sussidiario.
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.
