Fresh Raspberry Applesauce

“Is there a blessing for a sewing machine?” Tzeitel, Tevye’s daughter, asks the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof, “There is a blessing for everything,” she is assured.

In addition to the well-known prayers Jews recite when eating bread or drinking wine, there are many blessings to be uttered when relishing the beauty of the universe: seeing a rainbow, inhaling aromatic spices, and a charming one reserved for enjoying especially fragrant fruits.

That is the one for this ra