Pesachim

Now this raises a difficulty according to ‘Ulla?1 — ‘Ulla can answer you: This too is like a blessing for precepts. [For] what is the reason in the case of a blessing over precepts?2 Because It is [mere] praise;3 this too is praise.4 R. Hanania b. Shelemia and the disciples of Rab were sitting at a meal, and R. Hamnuna Saba5 was waiting on them. Said they to him, ‘Go and see if the day has become holy,6 in which case we will interrupt [the meal]7 and appoint it for the Sabbath.’8 ‘You do not need it,’ he replied; ‘the Sabbath itself makes it an appointed [meal].9 For Rab said: Just as the Sabbath makes [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of tithe,10 so does the Sabbath make [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of kiddush.’11 Now they understood from him: just as it makes [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of kiddush, so does it make [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of habdalah.12 Said R. Amram to them, thus did Rab say: It makes [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of kiddush, but it does not make [it an] appointed [meal] in respect of habdalah.13 But that is only in respect of interrupting [the meal], viz., that we do not interrupt [it]; we may not however commence [one].;14 And even about interrupting we said this with respect to eating only, but not with respect to drinking.15 And with respect to drinking too we said this only of wine and beer: but as for water, it does not matter. 16 Now he differs from R. Huna. For R. Huna saw a certain man drinking water before habdalah, [whereupon] he observed to him Are you not afraid of choking?17 For it was taught in R. Akiba's name: He who tastes anything before reciting habdalah shall die through choking.18 The Rabbis of R. Ashi's academy were not particular about water. Rabina asked R. Nahman b. Isaac: He who did not recite kiddush on the eve of the Sabbath,19 can he proceed to recite kiddush at any time of the day?20 — Said he to him: Since the sons of R. Hiyya said, he who did not recite habdalah at the termination of the Sabbath can proceed to recite habdalah the whole week, [it follows that] there too, he who did not recite kiddush on the eve of the Sabbath can proceed to recite kiddush at any time of the day. He raised an objection to him: On the nights of the Sabbath and on the nights of a Festival there is sanctification [kiddush] over the cup [of wine] and a reference [to the Sabbath or Festival] in the Grace after meals.21 On the Sabbath and a Festival22 there is no sanctification over a cup [of wine], but there is a reference in the Grace after meals. Now if you should think that he who did not recite kiddush on the eve of the Sabbath can proceed to recite kiddush the whole day, then on the Sabbath and festival [during the day] too there may be sanctification over the cup, ‘or if he did not recite kiddush in the evening, he recites kiddush on the morrow?-Said he to him: He [the Tanna] does not teach a case of ‘if’. He raised an objection to him: [If a man must choose between] the honour of the day and the honour of the night,23 the honour of the day takes precedence; and if he has only one cup [of wine], he recites Sabbath. (Three meals must be eaten on the Sabbath, and probably they wished to signify that this, though started before, should count as one.) and subject to tithe. (Produce is not subject to tithe until it has been harvested, threshed and carried in through the front of the house, v. B.M., Sonc. ed. p. 507f.) But the Sabbath, confers upon every meal, even if light, the character of a full, appointed meal, so that untithed produce is then forbidden. meal. during the day, the conclusion of the Sabbath automatically renders what follows an appointed meal, which is forbidden before habdalah, hence habdalah must be recited in the middle of the meal. if it continues beyond nightfall. occupies an intermediate position: it is sufficiently unimportant to be interrupted for habdalah, but too important to start after nightfall before habdalah. indicates that the kiddush was slightly advanced, so as to avert the possibility of commencing the Sabbath too late; cf. O.H. 271, 1 and idn ovrct a.l. meals, and must choose between them.