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Granted, according to the one who said that novelot temara are dates felled by the wind, that is why here, when our Mishnah speaks of ruined dates, it calls them novelot, unmodified and there, when it speaks of those that fell because of the wind, it calls them novelot temara. However, according t
The Mishnah cited a dispute with regard to the order in which one is supposed to recite the blessings when there were many types of food before him. R' Yehuda says: If there is one of the 7 species for which Eretz Yisrael was praised among them, he recites the first blessing over it. And the Rabbis
The Talmud raises an objection to this based on what was taught in a baraita: If a radish and an olive were before him, he recites a blessing over the radish and exempts the olive from the requirement of a blessing, although their blessings are different. The Talmud answers: With what are we dealing
The Talmud continues and asks: If so, say the latter clause of the baraita where R' Yehuda says: One recites a blessing over the olive, as the olive is a type of the 7 species. Does R' Yehuda not accept that principle which we learned in a Mishnah: Any food that is primary, and is eaten with food th
The Talmud responds: Actually, we are dealing with a case where the radish is the primary component of the meal, and when R' Yehuda and the Rabbis disagree, it is with regard to a different case that they disagree, and this baraita is incomplete and it teaches the following: If a radish and an oliv