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“And YHWH, God, is True” (Jeremiah 10:10).
After the conclusion of the final paragraph of Shema along with the first word of the subsequent blessing, with the words: “YHWH, your God, is True [Hashem Eloheikhem emet],” the question is posed: Does one repeat emet when he begins the blessing of emet veyatziv, or does he not repeat emet?
R' Abbahu said that R' Yoḥanan said: He repeats emet. Rabba said: He does not repeat emet. The Talmud relates: This person who descended to lead the service before Rabba, Rabba heard that he said emet, emet twice. Rabba mocked him and said: Every emet, emet has caught this one; he must be passiona
Rav Yosef said: How excellent is this tradition that I heard, as when Rav Shmuel bar Yehuda came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia he said: In Eretz Yisrael, at the evening prayer they do not recite the entire third portion of Shema, which deals with tzitzit, as there is no obligation to wear tzitzit
Abaye said to him: What is excellent about this tradition? Didn’t Rav Kahana say that Rav said: One should not begin to recite the portion of tzitzit at night, but if he does begin, he completes it? And if you say that: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, is not considered the beginnin