Commentary for Berakhot 56:14
ר' יהושע אומר ההולך במקום סכנה מתפלל תפלה קצרה ואומר הושע ה' את עמך את שארית ישראל בכל פרשת העבור יהיו צרכיהם לפניך ברוך אתה ה' שומע תפלה
R. Joshua says : If one is journeying in a place of danger, he should offer a short prayer, saying : "Save, O Lord, Thy people, the remnant of Israel ; in all times of crisis may their needs be before Thee. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, Who hearkenest to prayer."
Tosafot on Berakhot
ONCE THE TIME [TO RECITE] THE AFTERNOON PRAYER HAS ARRIVED, A PERSON MAY NOT TASTE ANYTHING ETC. And R’ Yehoshua ben Laivee is of the opinion that as soon as the time for minchoh arrives we must even stop eating. And it is not so. We do not follow R’ Yehoshua ben Laivee in this matter.1See Tosfos Shabos 9b matter. ד'ה בתספורת for a different opinion on this matter.
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Rab Joseph was the Principal of the Seminary at Pombedita, and used to deliver a discourse every Sabbath morning before the additional Tefillah.
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Who resented Rab Iwya's absence.
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M. : Raba.
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I.e. a man may say the Tefillah at home before the Congregation says it in the Synagogue.
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As a teacher of Torah.
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Either idlers or stall-holders. Wiesner, p. 64, suggests that the word keronut is connected with the Latin corona and means "a company," sc. of musicians. J. T. reads : with those who frequent theatres and circuses.
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Jastrow, p. 331 a, explains : i.e. parading a superficial knowledge of the Bible by verbal memorising. Goldschmidt suggests that the word higgayon (lit. meditation), which in medieval Hebrew is used in the sense of "logic," may here mean "philosophical speculation." It has also been explained as referring to the reading of apocryphal literature as against the canonical Scriptures ; cf. A. T. i. p. 97 n. 5.
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Corresponding to the right-hand pillar in Solomon's Temple ; cf. I Kings vii. 21,
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If there is a witness, he desists. Remember, then, that God is always a witness ; so have the same fear of Him that you have of a human being.
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Caused by the presence of a corpse.
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To accompany him into the next world.
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See Singer, pp. 44-54. There are now nineteen, the addition being explained below. On this important part of the liturgy, see J. E. xi. pp. 270-282; and especially Elbogen, Geschichte des Achtzehngebets and his Der judische Gottesdienst, pp. 27-60, 515-519.
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This will be explained below.
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Eleven times J H W H and seven times Elohim.
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See p. 76 n. 6 and p. 229.
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For this benediction, see Singer, p. 48 — "And for slanderers," etc. "It was directed against antinomians — those who rejected or neglected the Law — and also against sectarians within the Synagogue. The statement which originated with Justin Martyr that the paragraph is an imprecation against Christians in general has no foundation whatever" (Abrahams, p. Ixlv). See also Herford, Christianity in Midrash and Talmud, pp. 125 ff.
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See p. Ill n. 1.
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So M. correctly. Edd. : R. Levi the son of R. Samuel b. Nahmani said : According to R. Hillel.
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"The Lord is one," which is taken as an attribute of the Deity.
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On the word ha-Pakoli see T. A. i. p. 540 n. 138, ii. p. 623 n. 39.
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Derenbourg, Essai sur l'histoire, p. 345 n., explains the statement "in the following year he had forgotten it" by conjecturing that the benediction relating to the Minim was originally said not daily as now, but on a special annual occasion.
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