It is interesting how all fruits and vegetables are automatically kosher (with the exception of fruits and vegetables grown in Eretz Yisroel, which are not kosher until Terumos and Ma’asros are separated). Notice their Ma'ala, how they all started off in the ugly ground, and how they “rose above” their background and became edible. And the greatest of all vegetative foods is bread, since so much hard work goes into it (there are 10 steps till bread is produced) and whatever comes with difficulty, always makes you on top. The Bracha on bread (הַמוֹצִיא) covers all other foods eaten in the meal, and the Mitzva of Birchas HaMazon is said only after bread. Indeed, people with Nisyonos become the greatest.
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