העמוד היומי מסכת ברכות דף נד עמוד א

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Hofstedter’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] Page 44, page 1, in the book of the Divine Mercy, we begin the first page of the last chapter in Tractate Berakhot. The chapter speaks of course about berachot, as the name of the tractate suggests. It seems to me that it can be defined that this chapter speaks of more special berachot. Here are the berachot for the miracles that were done to the people of Israel. Here are the berachot for the forces of nature. Here are the berachot for all kinds of amazing things, the Great Sea, maidens, and so on. Happy berachots, sad berachots, and so on. We will see and so on. We will see everything according to the order of the Mishnah, as in the previous chapter. In fact, the Mishnahs of the entire chapter were combined into one Mishnah. We see this at the beginning, and then the Gemara in one uniform sequence until the end of the chapter until the end of the tractate. During the Gemara, we will see something amazing about the recitation of Shema. In the recitation of Shema, which we say every evening in the morning twice with love, we say, "And you shall love the name of your God with all your heart and with all your soul." The Gemara says, "Even giving your soul is a matter of self-sacrifice." Nowadays, there is not so much self-sacrifice, but "sacrifice" means will, and

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1. 0:02[Music] Page 44, page 1, in the book of the Divine Mercy, we begin the first…
2. 1:06not so much self-sacrifice, but "sacrifice" means will, and every person can surrender their desires and…
3. 2:40And this was uprooted. He says: Baruch, who uprooted idolatry from our land. The Gemara moves…
4. 4:16prayer of Shu. The Gemara gives an example of this. If his wife is pregnant and…
5. 5:18Love the Name your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your…
6. 6:49on the right, go left, cross it to the other side. You arrive in the second…
7. 8:22miracles that were done with our ancestors,' that we bless them." Rabbi Yochanan said: " Demer…
8. 9:23suicide, a miracle was performed for him, and a spring was created for him, and from…
9. 10:55blessing is blessed over his wife Shelot, who was made a salt pan, and the wall…
10. 12:29not know that Aaron the Covenant was leading the camp of Israel. And so that the…

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