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מתקיף לה רב חסדא: לאחר שמילא כריסו הימנו חוזר ומברך עליה? אלא אמר רב חסדא: מעיקרא מברך עליה ״בורא פרי האדמה״ ו״על אכילת מרור״ ואכיל, ולבסוף אכיל אכילת חסא בלא ברכה.
Rav Ḥisda strongly objects to this opinion: Do you think that after one fills his belly with lettuce, he then recites another blessing over it? Rather, Rav Ḥisda said: Initially one recites two blessings over the lettuce: Who creates fruit of the ground, and: Commanded us over eating bitter herbs, and he eats it; and later in the seder he eats lettuce without a blessing.
בסוריא עבדי כרב הונא, ורב ששת בריה דרב יהושע עביד כרב חסדא. והלכתא כוותיה דרב חסדא. רב אחא בריה דרבא מהדר אשאר ירקות לאפוקי נפשיה מפלוגתא.
The Talmud comments: In Syria, they act in accordance with the opinion of Rav Huna. And Rav Sheshet, son of Rav Yehoshua, acted in accordance with the opinion of Rav Ḥisda. The Talmud summarizes: And the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of Rav Ḥisda. The Talmud relates that Rav Aḥa, son of Rava, would seek other vegetables for Passover to preclude himself from taking sides in the dispute. He first recited only the blessing: Who creates fruit of the ground, and later added the blessing: Commanded us over eating bitter herbs, thereby satisfying all opinions.
אמר רבינא: אמר לי רב משרשיא בריה דרב נתן, הכי אמר הלל משמיה דגמרא: לא ניכרוך איניש מצה ומרור בהדי הדדי וניכול, משום דסבירא לן מצה בזמן הזה דאורייתא, ומרור דרבנן, ואתי מרור דרבנן ומבטיל ליה למצה דאורייתא.
Ravina said: Rav Mesharshiya, son of Rav Natan, said to me that Hillel said as follows, citing tradition: A person should not wrap matza and bitter herbs together and eat them. He ruled in this manner because he maintains that today, after the destruction of the Temple, the obligation to eat matza applies by Torah law, and the obligation to eat bitter herbs without the Paschal lamb applies by rabbinic law. And if one were to wrap them together, the bitter herbs, whose obligation applies by rabbinic law, would come and nullify the matza, whose obligation applies by Torah law.