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When we go on a trip with the children, I tell everyone to wash their hands for bread and make a blessing “haMotzi” before getting into the car, and we continue eating in the car, and then when we get to our destination. Is this all-right, or is it a problem because of having changed the place of the meal?

In the situation you describe there is no problem of changing the place of the meal because no specific place was designated. The Alter Rebbe writes (60:64) “As travelers are accustomed to eat while they travel and they sit and say the after blessing where they finished eating, since this was their initial intention – not to eat where they made the HaMotzi blessing on the bread and started eating.”

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