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Talmud for Berakhot 6:1

ואם ספק שמקצת הראיה מהיום ומקצתה למחר ודאי לטומאה וספק לקרבן. רבי חייא בר יוסף בעא קומי רבי יוחנן מאן תנא ראיה נחלקת לשנים רבי יוסי אמר לה קשתה על דעתך דאת אמר כל הרף עין והרף עין שבחצי מיל דרבי נחמיה ספק הוא למה אמר ליה קשתיה לכשיבא אליהו ויאמר זהו בין השמשות. מאן פליג ר' חנינא חברהון דרבנן בעי כמה דאת אמר בערבית נראו שלשה כוכבים אע"פ שהחמה נתונה באמצע הרקיע לילה הוא. ומר אף בשחרית כן. א"ר אבא כתיב (בראשית י״ט:כ״ג) השמש יצא על הארץ ולוט בא צוערה וכתיב (ויקרא כ״ב:ז׳) ובא השמש וטהר מקיש יציאתו לביאתו מה ביאתו משיתכסה מן הבריות אף יציאתו לכשיתודע לבריות.

But if the doubt exists, that the sight of the impurity dates partly from to-day and partly from the morrow, the impurity is certain, but the sacrifice uncertain. On account of this, R. Hiya bar-Joseph answered in the presence of B. Yohanan: Who is it who taught that one of these occasions of impurity can be divided into two? It was R. Yosse. He answered: You thus refute your own opinion; for you say that each twinkling of an eye of the time accomplished in a half-mile, according to R. Nehemiah, is doubtful, and not only the end of it. No contradiction can be offered to this; when the Prophet Elijah shall return to this world, and will explain to us what this twilight means, no one will contest him. R. Hanina argued against the disciples of the Rabbis: Since, said he, it is night as soon as three stars are visible, be the sun still high in the heavens, the same must apply (before the day) in the morning. R. Abba said: It is written (in Gen. xix. 23) : "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar;" and is written (in Lev. xxii. 7): "And when the sun is down he shall be clean." The sunrise is compared with the sunset: As sunset corresponds to the disappearance of the sun from the sight of man, so also sunrise is manifested by the appearance of the sun to the eye of man.

Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot

HALAKHAH: Rebbi Ḥizqiah in the name of Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa: This is Rebbi Yehuda’s since Rebbi Yehudah makes trees like straws117In the Babli (40a) this is the accepted opinion, in the name of Rav Naḥman. The proof is from Mishnah Bikkurim 1:8 which states that if a tree was felled, its owner may not bring the first fruits of that tree to the Temple, but Rebbi Yehudah insists that he may. Since everybody agrees that grain may be offered as first-fruits, and grain can be brought only after it was cut and separated from the straw, it follows that Rebbi Yehudah treats trees simply as stalks for their fruits.. Rebbi Yose said, it is everybody’s opinion since fruits of a tree are also fruits of the soil but fruits of the soil are not fruits of the tree118In contrast to the opinion of the Tanna R. Yose quoted in the next paragraph, every true statement about food is acceptable.. Rav Huna said119Babli 40b. His opinion is rejected in the Babli in favor of a dissenting one of Rebbi Yoḥanan not mentioned in the Yerushalmi. The next paragraph, which relativizes the statement of Rav Huna, requires a separate benediction for bread even if it is not the one formulated by the Men of the Great Assembly., except for bread and wine. The Mishnah (6:1) says so: Except for wine because on wine one says “Creator of the fruit of the vine;” except for bread because on bread one says “He Who produces bread from the earth.”
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