{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/tbr/tbr45.htm","path":"jud/tbr/tbr45.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/tbr/tbr45.htm","text":"Tractate Berakoth, by , by A. Lukyn Williams, [1921]\n7. (4 cont.). Three who have eaten together are not allowed to separate. 6 So also with four or\nM.five. If there are six they may be divided, and so up to ten. 1 But not ten until there be twenty.\n63:1 B. adds: \"In the case of a thousand besides the speaker, he says, Bless ye. In the case of a myriad one says, Let us bless the Loan our God, the God of Israel, the God of hosts, who dwelleth between the cherubim, over the meal that we have eaten.\"\n63:2 According to the wording of his blessing. C has, literally, \"According to the subject which he says, blesses\" (sic).\n63:3 Ps. 6826.\n63:4 in the synagogue. Where people are going and coming, so that their number is not known, in contrast to a private meal, where it is. Aqiba implies that the practice in the synagogue should guide that elsewhere. Cf. p. 69.\n63:5 The Halaka (Rule) follows R. Ishmael (Bartenora).\n63:6 to separate. Into two or more divisions, to say the Grace after the meal. For three is the lowest number for a religious company. Therefore four or five may not be divided. Cf. p. 50.\n64:1 ten. For ten also is a company. Therefore also the numbers from eleven to nineteen may not be divided.\n64:2 from the invitation. By having already said the Benediction for himself.","title":"Tractate Berakoth: III.\u2014Benedictions at Meals, etc.: M. VII. 7; T. V. 19. Companies, how to be divided","type":"page"}