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Rather, Rava said: When breaking bread, one recites the blessing over the complete loaf and only afterwards, he breaks it.
The Talmud relates: The rabbis of Neharde’a acted in accordance with the opinion of R' Ḥiyya and would recite the blessing as they were breaking the bread and conclude the blessing as he finished breaking off the piece of bread. And the Rabbis acted in accordance with the opinion of Rava and would r
It was stated that there was an amoraic dispute with regard to whether to recite the blessing over a whole loaf of bread or to recite it over a piece of bread: If they brought pieces and whole loaves of bread before those partaking of a meal, Rav Huna said: One may recite the blessing over the piece
R' Yirmeya bar Abba said that the dispute between Rav Huna and R' Yoḥanan is parallel to a tannaitic dispute with regard to the halakhot of teruma. We learned: Even though the onions from which the teruma must be separated are divided equally between the two, one separates teruma from a whole small
The Talmud rejects this comparison: Where there is a priest who can immediately take the teruma from him, everyone agrees that more significant takes precedence. When they disagree is in a case where there is no priest there, as we learned in a Mishnah: Everywhere that there is a priest, one separat