By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld In Devarim 27:5 the posuk says one should not raise a knife on the stones in the Bais Hamikdash. Shulchan Aruch OrachChaim 180 says that our minhag is to cover the knife while bentching. The Bais Yosef brings down two reasons for this. The first reason is that a table is domeh to a mizbeach and since regarding the mizbeach we are told do not raise a knife, we remove it during bentching. The Torah Temima asks the following question: why are we allowed to have honey […]