Commentary for Berakhot 40:22
ונגרוס בפרקא אחרינא אמר רב אדא בר אהבה בדבר שהצבור עוסקין בו
Then let him read some other chapter ! Rab Adda b. Ahabah replied : With that wherewith the Community is engaged [should he like-wise be engaged].
Rashi on Berakhot
consecration of the day … a positive commandment that is time-determined:Remember the Sabbath Day to consecrated it (Exodus): Remember it using wine. (Pesachim 106a)
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in keeping: of do not do labor. (ibid.)..
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and these women, since they are included in keeping: As we learn (Kiddushin 29a): All negative commandments, whether time-determined or not, are obligatory for women, since Scripture equated the woman with the man regarding all Torah punishments.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
"Command" is literally "command of Do" as distinct from a prohibition — "command of Do not."
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
This paragraph is omitted in some edd.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The law of Tefillin (Deut. vi. 8) is immediately followed by the law of Mezuzah (ibid. v. 9) ; the inference might therefore be drawn that they are identical in scope of obligation.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The command to "teach them diligently unto thy children" (ibid. v. 7) might be placed in the same class as the law to "write them upon the doorposts" (ibid. 5:9).
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
See Singer, p. 124, Oesterley and Box, pp. 375 ff.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The obligation to "observe" belongs to women, because there are several "prohibitions" (see p. 132 n. 1) in connection with the Sabbath.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
We "remember" the Sabbath by the Kiddush (see Glossary, s.v.).
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
By saying Grace after meals on their behalf.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
That a woman may say Grace for her husband and a son for his father.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
I.e. ordained by the Torah, since that is presupposed in the argument.
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According to R. Meir, food the size of an olive ; according to R. Judah, the size of an egg. See fol. 45 a.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The minor.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The father who has eaten only the quantity required by the Rabbis. The question at the head of the paragraph remains unanswered ; but the Halakah regards the woman as being enjoined by the Torah to say Grace, as implied in our Mishnah.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Lit. "Who lifteth up not the countenance."
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I.e. he does not even meditate on the benedictions.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Cf. Exod. xix. 15. The Israelites had to be ritually clean just to hear the Divine words. Therefore to hear (and consequently, to meditate upon) Torah is the equal of utterance.
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