Category: Brachos

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Begin on 49b, 7 lines from the top, amar Rav Idi. Learn the gemara until the mishna. See tosfos dh eeh and dh Rabbi Meir until the ninth line of tosfos. Regarding the gemara that says that one does not have to repeat benching if he forgets yaleh veyavoh on Rosh Chodesh, see Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 2 halacha 13. See Hagayos Maymonis on the bottom os 7 that discusses repeating on Chanukah and Purim. See Eimek Bracha (page 62 os 3) for a discussion of this. Regarding the discussion of benching on a kazayis, is that a chiyuv min hatorah or derabanan? See Shulchan Aruch siman 184 sif 6 and siman 197 sif 4.

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Begin on 49a at the two dots, 15 lines down. Learn until 49b, 7 lines from the top, amar Rav Idi bar Avin. Learn tosfos dh lomer and dh baruch. On the first gemara that discusses saying malchus in hatov vehameitiv, not in the bracha of bonei yerushlayim, why would one not say malchus where it belongs, in the bracha of bonei yerushalayim? Tosfos dh lomer should answer this point. Rabeinu Yonah on 36a dh aydi says another reason. What is a nafka minah between the two reasons? On tosfos dh baruch, there is a very obvious question on tosfos that can be found in the Mahrsha. See carefully Rashi on the top of 49b dh vehadar that says what one repeats if he forgets to mention shabbos in bentching. See Rambam hilchos brachos perek 2 halacha 12 with the Ravaad that brings a machlokes about this.

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Begin on 49a, at the two dots, 16 lines from the top, tanu Rabanan. Learn until yasiv Rabbi Zeirah, 7 lines from the bottom. See Rashi carefully in dh chutz mizu that brings two girsas to explain the gemara that answers the question from mekadeish hashabbos veyisroel vehazmanim. See also Rif on 36a that brings the gemara with the girsa of the Bahag. See Rabbeinu Yonah in dh amar lay that explains. Another question on the gemara is why does the gemara first ask from mekadeish yisroel vehazmanim and answers and then asks the same question from Rosh chodesh and answers the same. What was nischadesh to the gemara to ask from Rosh Chodesh after the gemara already said the previous answer. See the peirush of Rabbi Eliezer Moshe Horowitz in the back of the gemara that discusses this. See tosfos dh lomer with Maharsha.

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Begin on 48b, Rebbi omer, 21 lines before the end of the amud. Learn until the two dots on 49a, 16 lines down from the top. The gemara says that saying bris and torah in the second bracha of benching is required. If one forgets bris and torah, is he required to repeat benching? See Biur Halacha siman 187 sif 3 dh machzirin. See also Ritva here on 49a dh vehamilah that discusses this. If one finished the second bracha of benching without bris and torah and realized his mistake before beginning the next bracha, what should he do now? See Shaar Hatzion on the bottom of the Mishna Brura siman 187 sk 8. Is there room to take issue with his proof from yaleh veyavoh?

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Begin on 48b, amar Rav Nachman, 7 lines from the top of the amud. Learn the gemara until the two dots 3 lines from the bottom. See carefully Rashi dh ubeshabbos and tosfos dh maschil. See Rif on 35b beginning from the first wide line amar Rav Nachman until tanya on the third line from the bottom that argues on this Rashi regarding what the addition is for Shabbos. See also Rambam hilchos berachos perek 2 halacha 5 that does not say like the Rif. See Mishnah Berurah siman 188 sif 4 to see how we pasken on this. Regarding the gemara that learns Birchas Hatorah out of a kal vechomer, does this mean that birchas hatorah is a bracha mideoraysah? See Maharsha in chidushei aggados dh kal vechomer (ko”ch).

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Begin on 48A, at the two dots 9 lines from the top. Learn until amar Rav Nachman on 48B, 7 lines from the top. See tosfos dh tishah that discusses if one can be mitztaref a person that ate only vegetables to a zimun of three and if that is considered different from a zimun of ten. See also the opinion of the Rif (page 35b beginning from the third line from the top in the Rif). Is there an opinion in the gemara that holds that four vegetable eaters cannot be mitztaref to a zimun because we need a rov deminkar? See gemara that says “shisha vaday lo mibaye lee”. See Rashi dh he’ihu and the mesores hashas on the margin of the gemara that brings a different girsa. This will help explain the last few words in tosfos and the Rif that say that a rov deminkar is required. See Mishna Brura in siman 197 sif 2 and 3 for the halacha.

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Learn the gemara beginning on 47b, amar Rav Huna, 7 lines from the bottom. Learn until 48a, the two dots 9 lines down. See tosfos dh velays. Tosfos is very long. The main point to take out of tosfos if it is too lengthy to see the entire tosfos is to see from the beginning of tosfos until the first wide line that brings the shitah of Rabbeinu Tam regarding tziruf of a katan to zimun and tefilah. See Rif on 35a 3 lines from the bottom amar Rav Nachman until the 3rd line on amud beis that argues on Rabbeinu Tam. See Rambam hilchos brachos perek 5 halacha 7 at the end of the halacha that says like the Rif. See two opinions in Shulchan Aruch with Mishna Brura siman 199 sif 10. Eimek Bracha (page 60, birchas zimun) asks an interesting question according to Rabbeinu Tam.

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Begin on 47b, at the two dots on the second middle size line. Learn until the third line from bottom, amar Rav Yochanan. See tosfos dh mitzvah. The gemara says that a katan can be mitztaref to a mezuman in certain cases. How can a katan that cannot talk (mutal bearisah) be part of a mezuman? Perhaps in the meiri on the previous gemara that we saw there is an answer to this question. The gemara says that one can free a slave and trangress an asay for a “mitzvah derabbim”. What is the mitzvah derabbim here in the gemara? See tosfos dh mitzvah and Rosh siman 20 beginning from tanu rabanan until a few lines later velays hilchasah that discusses this point. On tosfos dh mitzvah, see Mahrsha that asks a question on tosfos. See Tzlach dh tosfos dh mitzvah in the first paragraph that answers the question. On the gemara that one who is in the first ten of a minyan receives the same schar as all those who come later, why is this so? See Mahrsha dh leolam.

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Begin on 47b, at the two dots on the second line, maaser sheini. Learn until the fifth wide line, veamar Rav Yehoshua. See tosfos dh amar Rav Huna. See Rosh siman 20 from the beginning of the piece until tanu Rabanan maaseh that discusses being mezaman with a am haaretz. See Meiri dh am haaretz gamur. See Shulchan Aruch siman 199 sif 3 with Mishna Brurah with Biur Halacha that discusses whether ine may be mezamen with someone that does aveiros.

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Begin on 47a, rav uShmuel haveh, 24 lines from the bottom of the amud. Learn until 47b, at the two dots achal tevel, on the second mid size line. See tosfos dh ilu, dh hilchasa and dh amar Rav Huna on amud beis. On the first gemara that discusses making a zimun with someone that joins at the very end, is this a chiyuv or voluntary? See Rabeinu Yonah at the beginning of the very first piece in the perek that brings a machlokes.  On the gemara that discusses not making a zimun with a am haretz, see Rosh at the beginning of siman 20. See Meiri on 47b dh am haretz gamur (on page 89). See the halacha in Mishnah Brurah siman 199 sif 3 with Mishnah Brurah and Biur Halacha dh am haretz.

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Begin on 47a, at the two dots halfway down the amud, tanu rabanan ayn onin. Learn until the two dots ten lines from the bottom, maaser rishon. See Rashi and tosfos dh amen, dh kol and dh ilu. Regarding Rashi and Tosfos’s question about amen yesomah from Alexandria, see Rabeinu Yonah on 34B dh ayn onen that says another answer to this question. See Rambam hilchos brachos perek 1 halacha 14 that alludes to an answer to this question. See Chidushei Reb Aryeh Leib cheilek 1 siman 5, specifically dh venireh dezeh, that explains the Rambam. On the gemara Rav and Shmuel that one can be mitztaref to a zimun as long as the two original members are still able to eat, is this a chiyuv zimun or a reshus? See Rashi dh achilnah and the first three lines of the first Rabeinu Yonah in the perek (32a dh shlosha). See also Biur halacha siman 197 sif 1 dh mitzaref.

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Begin on 46b, on the last line, tanu Rabanan. Learn until 47a, 15 lines from the bottom, achal demai. See tosfos dh ayn on 46b  and dh ayn on 47a until the third narrow line. Regarding the gemara that discusses being not being mechabed on derachim, see Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 7 halacha 12 that mentions kovod on entering a building but doesn’t mention kovod leaving the building. See the last line of the Kesef Mishna. See also Ohr Someach on this halacha of the Rambam that discusses this. Regarding the gemara that discusses not eating before the one who makes the bracha, what is the reason, is it because otherwise one will not be yotzei with the bracha, or because of derech eretz. After learning tosfos on 47a dh ayn there should be some clarity on this question.

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For tonight, begin on 46a, 5 lines from the bottom, amar Rav Yosef. Learn until the two dots on 46b, amar leih Reish Galusa, 19 lines down. See tosfos on amub beis dh vehatov with Mahrsha. For a discussion how can a poel shorten bentsching, see tosfos on 16a dh vechosem. See Pnei Yehoshua there. See also Magen Avrahom siman 191 sk 1 that discusses this. The point of discussion is whether all three brachos of bensching are mideoraysa, or the three concepts are deoraysah.

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Begin on the top of 46a, Rav Zeira, and learn until the two dots halfway down. See tosfos dh lo. What is the contradiction that tosfos is trying to answer? See Maharsha that explains. Another question, if Rav Avahu knew what Rav Yochanan held regarding that which the Baal Habayis should be botzeiah, why did he ask Rav Zeira to make the Hamotzei to begin with? See Rashba. See Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 2 halacha 7 that brings the halacha of birchas orech. Is there anything that one can be medayek in this Rambam regarding the birchas orech?

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Begin on 45b, 8 lines from the bottom, ba umatzan. Learn the gemara with Rashi until the two dots halfway down 46a. See tosfos dh Rav Zvid on 45b and dh ha and dh lo on 46a. On the gemara that discusses one who comes and finds 3 people in the middle of a zimun, see tosfos dh Rav Zvid and Rosh siman 9 for the wording that one should say. See Mishna Brurah in siman 198 sif 1, especially sk 2 with Shaar Hatzion sk 2 that asks why is this different from one who answers borchu, that is permitted to answer even though he did not hear the chazan say borchu. On the gemara that discusses answering amen to ones own bracha, see carefully Rashi dh ha bebonay and tosfos dh ha. See Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 1 halacha 16, 17 and 18 that sets guidelines exactly when one is permitted to answer amen to ones own bracha. On the gemara of the birchas orach, see Rambam hilchos Brachos perek 2 halacha 7. Is there anything that one can be medayek from this Rambam concerning birchas orach?