Pesachim

When they finish [their meal], he recites the Grace after meals over the first cup and the sanctity of the day over the second. Yet why so: let us recite both over one cup?1 — Said R. Huna in R. Shesheth's name: One may not recite two sanctities over the same cup.2 What is the reason? Said R. Nahman b. Isaac: Because you may not perform religious duties in wholesale fashion.3 Yet [may you] not? Surely it was taught: He who enters his house at the termination of the Sabbath, recites blessings over the wine, the light and the spices,4 and then recites habdalah over the cup [of wine].5 But if he has one cup only, he leaves it until after the meal6 and he recites them all together after it?7 — Where he has not [enough,] it is different. But on the Festival which falls after the Sabbath, though he has [wine] ,8 yet Rab said: [The order is] Yaknah.9 — I will tell you: Since he [Rab] did not include ‘the season’ [zeman],10 it follows that we are discussing the seventh day of Passover,11 by which time he has consumed all that he had and has one more. But on the first day of the Festival he has [wine], yet Abaye said: [The order is] Yakzanah; while Raba said: [The order is] Yaknehaz?12 — But habdalah and kiddush constitute one observance],13 [whereas] the Grace after meals and kiddush are two [distinct observances]. [To turn to] the [main] text: When a Festival falls after the Sabbath, Rab said: [The order is] Yaknah;14 Samuel said: [The order is] Yanhak;15 it is natural that two separate cups should be required for kiddush and Grace. require separate cups. pronounced over light because it is then that light was created, v. Supra 54a; spices are inhaled on the termination of the Sabbath to compensate for the loss of the superior (‘additional’) soul with which man is endowed on the Sabbath, Rashbam and Tosaf. a.l. and in Bez. 33b. provided with four cups of wine. Habdalah thus kiddush and habdalah are both recited over the same cup. first night (in the Diaspora on the first two nights) of every Festival, as well is in certain other occasions. again, if it follows the Sabbath, Habdalah also is recited. Kiddush precedes habdalah because it is regarded as more important; also, if he recited habdalah first, it might appear that the Sabbath were a burden to him, which he desired to end at the earliest possible moment. After kiddush the order is NH (‘light’ and habdalah), this being the usual order at the conclusion of the Sabbath. R. Joshua b. Hananiah.