Gevuroth geshamim ("el poder de la lluvia") se menciona en techiyath hamethim (la oración de resurrección) [Gevuroth geshamim: "Mashiv haruach", que no es una expresión de imploración, sino de recuerdo y alabanza. Se llama "gevuroth geshamim" porque la lluvia es uno de los actos poderosos del Santo Bendito sea Él, a saber. (Job 9:10): "Él hace grandes cosas, más allá de buscar"; (Ibid. 5:10): "Él da lluvia sobre la faz de la tierra"]; y se solicita lluvia ["veten tal umatar livracha" (que es una solicitud)] en birchath hashanim (la bendición de los años). [Debido a que la lluvia es sustento, colocaron la solicitud de lluvia en la bendición del sustento.]; y havdalah [al concluir el sábado] se recita en chonen hada'ath ("quien otorga conocimiento") [que es la primera bendición del día laborable. Y, en el Yerushalmi: "¿Por qué se colocó el havdalah en chonen hada'ath? Porque sin conocimiento no hay havdalah ('discriminación')". Y esta es la halajá.] R. Akiva dice: Se recita individualmente como la cuarta bendición. R. Eliezer dice: Se recita en la bendición de acción de gracias.
Tosefta Berakhot
If he did not mention [God’s] power [to bring down] rain in [the Beracha (blessing) of] Techiyat Hametim (Resurrection of the Dead) and he did not ask for rain in Birkat Hashanim (The Blessing for the Year) he has to go back [to the beginning of Shmoneh Esreh]. If he did not say Havdalah in [the Beracha of] Chonen Hadaat (He Who Grants Wisdom) he can say it over the cup [of wine], but if he did not say it [over the cup of wine then] he has to go back to the beginning [of Shmoneh Esreh]. Rebbi Yossi says, “Even someone who did not mention the covenant in Birkat Haaretz (The Blessing for the Land of Israel) [of Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals)] has to go back [to the beginning of Birkat Hamazon]."
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Tosefta Berakhot
Any [holiday] on which there is no Mussaf [prayer] for example, Chanukah and Purim, on Shacharit and Mincha he prays [the Shmoneh Esreh with] eighteen [Berachot (blessings)] and he says [the paragraph] about the occasion in [the Beracha of] Hodaah (Thanks). And if he did not say [the paragraph] about the occasion, he does not have to go back [to the beginning of Shmoneh Esreh]. And any [holiday] which has on it [the] Mussaf [prayer], for example Rosh Chodesh (New Month), and Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Sukkot and Pesach), on Shacharit and Mincha10 he would pray [the prayer of Shmoneh Esreh with] eighteen [Berachot] and he says [the paragraph] about the holiness of the day11 in [the Beracha of] Avodah (Temple Service).12 Rebbi Eliezer says, “[he says the paragraph about the holiness of the day] in [the Beracha of] Hodaah, and if he did not say it then he has to go back [to the beginning of Shmoneh Esreh].” In [the] Mussaf [prayer] he prays [the Shmoneh Esreh consisting of] seven [Berachot] and he says [the paragraph about the] holiness of the day in the middle [Beracha]. [On] Shabbat that fell out on Rosh Chodesh or on Chol Hamoed, during Shacharit and during Mincha he prays [the Shmoneh Esreh prayer that consists of] seven [Berachot] and he says [the paragraph about the] occasion in [the Beracha of] Avodah. Rebbi Eliezer says, “[He says the paragraph about the holiness of the day] in [the Beracha of] Hodaah, and if he did not say it then he has to go back [to the beginning of Shmoneh Esreh].” In [the] Mussaf [prayer] he prays [the Shmoneh Esreh consisting of] seven [Berachot] and he says [the paragraph about the] holiness of the day in the middle [Beracha]. On Shabbat, on Yom Tov (Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot), and on Yom Kippur] he prays [the Shmoneh Esreh consisting of] seven [Berachot] and he says [the paragraph about the] holiness of the day in the middle [Beracha]. Rabban Shimon Ben Gamliel and Rebbi Yishmael the son of Rebbi Yochanan Ben Beroka say, “Any time that he is supposed to say seven [Berachot in Shmoneh Esreh] he says [the paragraph about the] holiness of the day in the middle [Beracha].”
