תּלמוד אויף תהילים 72:16

Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa: Rebbi Neḥemiah and the rabbis disagree. Rebbi Neḥemiah said: “Who produced bread from the earth.” But the rabbis say, “Who produces bread from the earth.⁴³In the Babli (38a), the opinion ascribed here to the rabbis is that of Rebbi Neḥemiah and vice versa. This eliminates the question which the Yerushalmi raises about the current text of the benediction. In the opinion of the Babli, the preferred version (R. Neḥemiah here, the rabbis in the Babli) takes the present participle in an atemporal sense.” This disagreement is like that disagreement: לפת, Rebbi Ḥinena bar Isaac⁴⁴A preacher of the third generation of Galilean Amoraïm. The name of his teacher is unknown. and Rebbi Samuel bar Immi⁴⁵A Galilean Amora of the third generation who also appears as R. Samuel bar Ammi. His father and father-in-law also were rabbis.; one said “lefet, was it not bread?⁴⁵A Galilean Amora of the third generation who also appears as R. Samuel bar Ammi. His father and father-in-law also were rabbis.” and the other one said “lefet, will it not be bread”? (Ps. 72:16) “There will be a piece of flour on the land, on mountain tops.⁴⁷Since flour cannot form a loaf until it is baked, this means that bread will grow on mountain tops. This is a homily of R. Yoḥanan in Midrash Tehillim 92(6), which appears in the name of several other Amoraïm in Babli Šabbat 30b, Ketubot 111b.” Rebbi Jeremiah recited before Rebbi Zeïra “Who produced bread from the earth” and the latter praised him. Following Rebbi Neḥemiah⁴⁸One is not supposed to follow a minority of one, much less to be praised for it.? Not to amalgamate the letters⁴⁹So that הָעוֹלָם מוֹצִיא should not be pronounced ha‘ôlāmôẓî, but clearly be said in two distinct words.! If it is so, הַמִּין הָאָרֶץ⁵⁰Since לֶחֶם מִן also has two consecutive mem and could be read together. However, the change proposed here makes no sense; nobody wants to pronounce a meaningless benediction that would be close to blasphemy. The question does not merit an answer.? In the opinion of Rebbi Neḥemiah⁵¹One wonders why they disagree only about the language for bread and not for wine., “He Who created the fruit of the vine”; in the opinion of the rabbis “Who creates the fruit of the vine.”

And didn’t R’ Oshaya say: At the time when Shlomo built the Holy Temple he planted in it all types of precious things of gold, and they brought forth their fruits in their time. And when the wind blew through them they dropped their fruits, as it says “…may its fruit rustle like Lebanon…” (Psalms 72:16) Once strangers entered into the Palace – they dried out, as it says “…and the blossoms of the Lebanon are cut off.” (Nachum 1:4)

R’ Chiya bar Yosef said: in the future the righteous will burst forth and rise up (from the dead) in Jerusalem, as it says “…and they will blossom forth from the city like the grass of the earth.” (Psalms 72:16) The word city only refers to Jerusalem, as it says “And I will protect this city to save it…” (Kings II 19:34)