More Discussions for this daf
1. Keri'as Shema - biblical or rabbinic? 2. Day and then night 3. Eating in the dark
4. Temimus 5. The posuk beshochbicha uvikumecha 6. Zman Krias Shma
7. earliest time to say Shema in the evening 8. Uva Hashemesh Vetaher 9. When does a poor man eat?
10. Be'arvin 11. What to read 12. The poor man's meal
13. Being Motzi another person with Shema 14. Eating korbanot until chatzot 15. The opposite of Tahor....
16. Sitting during Shema 17. Charts 18. When does Day Begin?
19. Does the Ri agree with the Yerushalmi 20. va'Yehi Erev va'Yehi Voker Yom Echad 21. Berachos 002: Shema
22. Kri'as Shema 23. To keep a person from Aveirah 24. Night or Day?
25. mi'Sha'ah sheha'Kohanim 26. Where do the Kohanim eat Terumah? 27. "reading" ; what about Kohanim?
28. Sof Zeman Shema 29. Second Answer of the Gemara 30. Zemanim
31. Rashi's Shitah for early Ma'ariv 32. Different Shitos in Shema 33. k'Sus ha'Zeh she'Eino Nirdam
34. Sunrise and Sunset 35. Translation of the Word "mi'Chi" 36. Tzeis or Bein ha'Shemashos
37. When do the Poor Eat? 38. The Gemara's Second Answer 39. Ashkenazi Keri'as Shema at Bedtime
40. Sunrise / Sunset 41. Iy Ba'is Eima 42. Which Shi'ur is earlier?
43. Zman Shema 44. When An Ani Eats His Bread 45. Rabeinu Tam in Tosfos
46. Is there a typo in the first Tosfos? 47. Times for Keri'as Shema 48. Tosfos and Rebbi Yehoshua Ben Levi
49. Codewords for Time of Earliest Kerias Shema 50. Me'eimasai 51. Korei vs Kor'in
52. Tzeis ha'Kochavim 53. Latest time 54. Time for saying Shema
55. בערבין 56. מתי אוכלים העניים 57. משעה שהעני אוכל פתו
DAF DISCUSSIONS - BERACHOS 2

Zvi Wainstein answers:

Hi Eliyahu,

As an ex-South African myself I was very pleased to receive your questions on Berachos.

(a) RASHI seems to be saying that if we Daven Ma'ariv early then we can fulfill the obligation of Shema at night by reading the first paragraph of Shema when we go to sleep.

(b) With regard to the time limitation of Chatzot for eating Korbanos, refer to the Mishnayos of Eizehu Mekoman which you will find in your Siddur before Baruch She'amar.

(c) As regards the various time options, e.g. from when the Kohanim eat their Terumah, or when the poor men eat: each of these are different times. The Torah does not say that we read Shema at night, rather it describes this time as be'Shochbechah, even if technically it is not yet night. These opinions argue as to when this time period of be'Shochbechah starts. We find that the Gemara later says that be'Kumecha is until three hours of the day since that is when royalty wakes up. Similarly, the times in our Gemara are to be taken as indicators of when B'Shochbecho is.

Bi'vracha,

Zvi Wainstein (formerly from Johannesburg)