Yerushalmi Berakhot 6:8 ירושלמי ברכות ו׳:ח׳

MISHNAH: One who ate figs, grapes, or pomegranates²¹⁵Or any other of the “Seven Fruits” that has not been made into bread; see note 15. recites for them three benedictions²¹⁶Full grace; this Mishnah is the introduction to the subject of Grace which will occupy the next two chapters., the words of Rabban Gamliel; but the Sagessay, one benediction imitating three. Rebbi Aqiba says, even if one ate cooked food and that is his meal he recites for it three benedictions²¹⁷Since the verse says: (Deut. 8:10) “When you will eat and will have been satiated then you must praise the Eternal, your God, for the good land that He has given you.” There is no mention of bread. The three benedictions are (1) for the food, (2) for the Land, (3) for Jerusalem.. He who drinks water for his thirst²¹⁸He drinks water for itself and not to accompany or wash down food. says “By Whose word everything was created.” Rebbi Tarphon²¹⁹Probably the Greek name Τρυφῶν. He was old enough to have served as a priest in the Temple before its destruction. The text of the Yerushalmi in the Halakhah, a manuscript of the Babli, and some quotes from Medieval authorities have “R. Yehudah” instead of “R. Tarphon”. Since the main thrust of the Mishnah is about concluding benedictions, it is not clear whether R. Tarphon/Yehudah speaks of a first benediction, contradicting R. Aqiba, or about the concluding benediction for food that needs neither “three benedictions” nor “one benediction imitating three.” said, “Creator of many living things”²²⁰Some Mishnah manuscripts have here the full text of the minor benediction after food..

HALAKHAH: Rebbi Simon, Rebbi Thaddeus²²²Israeli Amora of the second generation. His sayings are reported either by R. Simon or by R. Abba., in the name of Rebbi Hoshaia: If one ate East of a fig tree and then changed to West of it²²³Assuming that the fig tree is very old and large enough so that he cannot see his old place from the new one. to eat, he must make a benediction. Abba bar Rav Huna said: old wine, new wine, he has to recite a benediction²²⁴Since the benediction, as explained later in this Halakhah, is for the quality of the wine, one would expect that the change from new to old wine should require a benediction rather than the other way around. However, one has to assume that one deals with wine stored in cheap pottery amphoras rather than in extremely expensive glass bottles. The amphoras are porous and most of the alcohol will have vanished by the time the amphora is opened and also the flavor will have deteriorated under the influence of the air seeping in from the outside. Hence, the text here is justified.. Change of wine he does not have to make a benediction. Change of place he has to make a benediction. If he took his mind off²²⁵After some time has passed. If one then returns to drink, it is a new activity. it is equal to change of place. Rebbi was reciting a benediction on any wine amphora that he was opening. What did he say? The old Rebbi Isaac in the name of Rebbi: “He Who is good and does good²²⁶Benediction on getting good news..” When Rebbi Aqiba was making a marriage feast for his son Simeon, he said a benediction over every wine amphora that he opened and said: “Good wine for the rabbis and their students.”

“²²⁷Quote from the Mishnah. He who drinks water for his thirst says ‘That everything was created by His word.’” Rebbi Jonah said, except pick-axe water²²⁸As is clear from the text, this is water drunk only for medicinal purposes.. Rebbi Yose said, on any water that he thirsts for²²⁹If somebody drinks medicinal waters for his thirst, he has to recite the benediction for water, not that for medicinal waters. If he drinks water not for his thirst (in the language of the Babli, 44b, if a piece of food is stuck in his esophagus,) he does not have to recite any benediction.. Rebbi Abun said, he who drinks pick-axe water, what does he say? “Praise to Him Who created medicinal waters.”²³⁰The fact that a benediction is due is also noted in the Babli (38a), but the text is given only here. Some Tannaïm state “deqarim water”, other Tannaïm state “deqalim waters”. He who said deqarim (pick-axe) waters, because they pierce the gall bladder. And he who says deqalim (date palm) waters, because they gush forth between two palm trees²³¹Compare Latin decalicator “hard drinker”, one who is able to empty a calix, a goblet, at one draught (E. G.)..