Category: Rabbi Gershon West’s Shiurim

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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.