Quem entra na cidade faz duas orações, uma ao entrar e outra ao sair. Ben Azzai diz: Quatro, dois ao entrar e dois ao sair. [Quando ele está prestes a entrar, ele diz: "... que você me leva a esta cidade em paz." Uma vez que ele entrou, ele disse: "Agradeço por ter me levado a esta cidade em paz"—dois ao entrar. Quando ele está prestes a sair, ele diz: "... que você me conduz desta cidade em paz". Depois que ele se foi, ele disse: "Agradeço por ter me levado desta cidade em paz."] E ele agradece o passado e clama pelo futuro. [Por que tudo isso? Pois é preciso agradecer ao Criador pelo bem que ele experimentou e deve orar pelo bem no futuro.]
Tosefta Berakhot
The blessing after the meal is an obligation from the Torah, as it says “And you will eat and be sated, and you shall bless the Lord, your God, for the good land He has given you.” (Devarim 8:10) ’And you will eat and be sated, and you shall bless’ this refers to the blessing after the meal. ‘the Lord, your God’ refers to the first blessing on the land. ‘the good land’ this refers to Jerusalem, as it says “…this good mountain and the Lebanon.” (Devarim 3:25) ‘He has given you’ this refers to the blessing of ‘who is good and does good.’ From where do we learn that just as one is obligated to make a blessing before eating, so too they are obligated to make one after eating? The verse says ‘He has given you,’ meaning from the moment He has given it to you. From where do we learn that we bless even on the mountains and the hills? The verse says ‘on the land.’ From where do we learn that we bless even on the Torah and the commandments? The verse says ‘He has given you,’ and it says elsewhere “…and I will give you the stone tablets…” (Shemot 24:12) R’ Meir says ‘from where do we learn that just as one blesses on the good, so too they bless on the bad? The verse says ‘the Lord, your God…has given you’ “Your God,” meaning, “your Judge.” Bless Him for every judgement He passes on you, be it for the good or bad.