פירוש על ברכות 80:26

E.g. wheat.

These have special benedictions; see p. 233.

This is valid as a benediction and he may proceed to eat.

Since they both demand the precise benediction.

Who are content so long as praise is offered to God.

If the man had merely said, "Blessed be the All-present Who has created this" and not "this bread," it would not have sufficed for R. Meir. Hence he agrees with Rab Huna who is not satisfied with "...By Whose word," etc. because it makes no mention of the bread.

I.e. break a piece and place salt or relish in between; cf. Lane, p. 148. On the various explanations of the phrase, which is literally "to wrap the bread," see T.A. iii. p. 51.

These words are Aramaic, not Hebrew.

And there is no mention of it in Benjamin's benediction of which Rab approved.

Benjamin's formula is acceptable as a substitute for the first of the three benedictions.

The language having been Aramaic.

The priest's address to the woman suspected of adultery ; see Num. v. 21 f.

Cf. Deut. xxvi. 13-15.

Since we have this teaching concerning the Grace after meals, permitting it to be said in any language, what was the purpose of Rab's remark?

That the benediction not in Hebrew is valid.

Viz. "King of the Universe." Derenbourg, R. E. J. xiv p.- 27, suggests that stress was laid upon the Divine Kingship in every benediction as a sort of protest against the rule of the Roman tyrants.

M.: a Mishnaic teaching.

This sentence is omitted in M. and some edd.

All the things so far mentioned come within this category.

See next folio, p. 271.

Lit. whose form has passed.

Of the things enumerated in the Mishnah, viz. vinegar and locusts.

Because they need not necessarily be spoilt as the scorched fruits are.

I.e. if he purchased these fruits from a person of whom he is not certain that he gave the tithe, it is unnecessary for the buyer to give a tithe.

According to Low, Aramaische Pflanzennamen, pp. 287 f. the correct reading is 'Uzrarin.

For כנרי read כינרי with the 'Aruk, i.e. ϰόνναροϛ.

That no tithe had been taken.

Fruit fallen from the tree can be claimed by the poor and is not subject to the tithe.

M : R. Isaac b. Eleazar said in the name of R. Eliezer b. Jacob.

Cf. Lev. xix. 9f., xxiii. 22, Deut. xxiv. 19.

The poor who collected the fruits.