Halakhah for Shabbat 234:11

כיצד נפלה דליקה כו': ת"ר כמה סעודות חייב אדם לאכול בשבת שלש רבי חידקא אומר ארבע א"ר יוחנן ושניהם מקרא אחד דרשו (שמות טז, כה) ויאמר משה אכלוהו היום כי שבת היום לה' היום לא תמצאהו בשדה רבי חידקא סבר הני תלתא היום לבר מאורתא ורבנן סברי בהדי דאורתא תנן נפלה דליקה בלילי שבת

R. Abba said: On the Sabbath it is one's duty to break bread<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., to recite the benediction. ');">²⁶</span> over two loaves, for it is written, twice as much bread.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid, 22. ');">²⁷</span> R. Ashi said: I saw that R. Kahana held two [loaves] but broke bread over one, observing, 'they gathered' is written,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. One merely requires two loaves before him, thus 'gathering' double the usual portion, but recites the benediction over one loaf. ');">²⁸</span> R. Zera broke enough bread for the whole meal.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he cut off so much bread, reciting the blessing over it. ');">²⁹</span> Said Rabina to R. Ashi: But that looks like greed? — Since he does not do this every day, he replied, but only now [the Sabbath], it does not look like greed, he replied.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But is manifestly in honour of the Sabbath. ');">³⁰</span> R. Ammi and R. Assi, when they came across the bread of an 'erub, would commence (their meal] therewith,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., they said the blessing over it. ');">³¹</span> observing, 'Since one precept has been performed with it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. that of 'erub. ');">³²</span> let another precept be performed with it.' HOW SO? IF A FIRE BREAKS OUT, etc. Our Rabbis taught: How many meals must one eat on the Sabbath? Three. R. Hidka said: Four. R. Johanan observed, Both expound the same verse: And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a Sabbath unto the Lord: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 25. ');">³³</span> R. Hidka holds: These three 'to-days' are [reckoned] apart from the evening;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each 'to-day' denotes one meal, and a fourth is the meal on Friday night. ');">³⁴</span> whereas the Rabbis hold, They include [that of] the evening. We learnt, IF A FIRE BREAKS OUT SABBATH NIGHT,

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