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However, in a situation where, when you take the fruit, the branch does not remain and again produce fruit, we do not recite the blessing: Who creates fruit of the tree, but rather: Who creates fruit of the ground.
We learned in the Mishnah: And on all food items, if he recited: By whose word all things came to be, he fulfilled his obligation. It was stated that the amora’im disputed the precise explanation of the Mishnah. Rav Huna said: This halakha applies to all foods except for bread and wine. Since the
The Talmud remarks: Let us say that this dispute is parallel to a tannaitic dispute found elsewhere, as it was taught in a Tosefta: One who saw bread and said: How pleasant is this bread, blessed is God Who created it, fulfilled his obligation to recite a blessing. One who saw a fig and said: How pl
The Talmud rejects this: Rav Huna could have said to you: I said my statement, even in accordance with the opinion of R' Meir, as R' Meir only stated his opinion, that one who alters the formula of the blessing fulfills his obligation, there, where the individual explicitly mentions the term bread
And R' Yoḥanan could have said to you: I said my statement, even in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, as R' Yosei only stated his opinion, that one who alters the formula of the blessing does not fulfill his obligation, there, because he recited a blessing that was not instituted by the rabb