Talmud for Berakhot 3:2
קָבְרוּ אֶת הַמֵּת וְחָזְרוּ, אִם יְכוֹלִין לְהַתְחִיל וְלִגְמֹר עַד שֶׁלֹּא יַגִּיעוּ לַשּׁוּרָה, יַתְחִילוּ. וְאִם לָאו, לֹא יַתְחִילוּ. הָעוֹמְדִים בַּשּׁוּרָה, הַפְּנִימִים פְּטוּרִים, וְהַחִיצוֹנִים חַיָּבִין:
Once they bury the dead and return — if they can begin and finish [one section of the Shema] before they arrive at the file [They would make files of mourners to comfort him upon returning from the grave.], they should begin; and if not, [If the distance from the grave to the place where they made the file was short, so that there was no time to being and finish before arriving at the file], they should not begin. Those who stand in the file — the inner ones [(who see the mourners)] are exempt; the outer ones are obligated.
Jerusalem Talmud Bikkurim
Rebbi Zeïra said that Rebbi Aḥa interrupted [his studies] and got up since he considered the following statement:48Tosephta Berakhot 2:6, quoted Šabbat 1:1 (fol. 3b) In the Tosephta, there is an additional statement of Rebbi to the effect that one does not interrupt the performance of one commandment for any other commandment, a statement attributed to R. Ḥanania ben Aqabia in Babli Sukkah26a.
While here it is assumed that R. Aḥa follows R. Ḥanania ben Aqabia, an argument in R. Aḥa’s name to support the anonymous statement is in Berakhot1:5 (Note 164), Šabbat 1:2. “The writers of Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot do interrupt for the reading of the Šema‘ but they do not interrupt for prayer. Rebbi Ḥanania ben Aqabia says, just as they interrupt for the reading of the Šema‘ so they do interrupt for prayer, tefillin, and all other commandments of the Torah.”
While here it is assumed that R. Aḥa follows R. Ḥanania ben Aqabia, an argument in R. Aḥa’s name to support the anonymous statement is in Berakhot1:5 (Note 164), Šabbat 1:2. “The writers of Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot do interrupt for the reading of the Šema‘ but they do not interrupt for prayer. Rebbi Ḥanania ben Aqabia says, just as they interrupt for the reading of the Šema‘ so they do interrupt for prayer, tefillin, and all other commandments of the Torah.”
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