Commentary for Berakhot 11:25
אי הכי נפישי להו טובי בתי אלא כי מי גוי גדול ומי גוי גדול דדמיין להדדי בחד ביתא אשריך ישראל ומי כעמך ישראל בחד ביתא או הנסה אלהים בחד ביתא ולתתך עליון בחד ביתא
If so, it will have too many partitions ! Nay, "For what great nation is there" and "And what great nation is there," which are very similar, are in one partition; "Happy art thou, O Israel" and "Who is like Thy people Israel" in one ; "Or hath God assayed to go" in one ; and "To make thee high above all nations" in one.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The case of the head-Tefillin consists of four partitions, in each of which is a strip of parchment containing a prescribed Scriptural passage. But here Bab Ashe enumerates six passages !
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Edd. add : and all these verses are written in [the Tefillin of] His arm. The words are omitted in M. and read like a marginal note inserted unnecessarily into the text.
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