{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tbr/tbr44.htm","path":"jud/tbr/tbr44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tbr/tbr44.htm","text":"Tractate Berakoth, by , by A. Lukyn Williams, [1921]\nM.VII. 4 (3). How is the invitation worded? 1 In the case of three persons they say: \"Let us bless.\" 2 If there are three besides the speaker, he says: \"Blessed be He.\" 3 If there are ten he says: \"Let us bless our God.\" If there are ten besides the speaker he says: \"Blessed be He.\" It is all the same whether there be ten or ten myriads. 4\n5 (3 cont.). In the case of a hundred he says: \"Let us bless the LORD our God.\" In the case of a hundred besides the speaker he says: \"Blessed be He.\" In the case of a thousand they say: \"Let\nM.us bless the LORD our God, the God of Israel, the God of hosts.\" 1\nIn the case of a myriad besides the speaker, he says: \"Blessed be He.\" According to the wording of his blessing 2 so do they respond after him: \"Blessed be the LORD our God, the God of Israel, the God of hosts, dwelling between the cherubim for the meal that we have eaten.\"\nR. Jose, the Galilean, says: According to the number of the congregation do they frame the Benediction, for it is said, \"By congregations bless ye God the LORD, from the fountain of Israel.\" 3\n6 (3 cont.). R. Aqiba says: How do we find it in the synagogue? 4 It is all one whether there be many or few; they say, Bless ye the LORD.\" R. Ishmael says: \"Bless ye the LORD who is blessed.\" 5\n62:1 How is the invitation worded? The formul\u00e6 are essentially the same as in SA, p. 279. See also Abrahams' notes.\n62:2 \"Let us bless.\" Observe the gradation. Here no name is mentioned, for ten alone is a fully religious assembly; where there are ten, \"our God\"; where a hundred, \"the LORD our God\" where a thousand, \"the LORD our God, the God of Israel, the God of hosts\"; where a myriad, there is the addition of \"dwelling between the cherubims.\"\n62:3 Blessed be He. B has \"Bless ye\" wherever \"Blessed be He\" comes in this and the next mishna (in C.).\n62:4 myriads. See the next mishna (in C.).","title":"Tractate Berakoth: III.\u2014Benedictions at Meals, etc.: M. VII. 4-6. The Words of the Invitation depend on the Number Present","type":"page"}