Study Niddah folio 8B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud asks: But wasn’t R' Eliezer much older than R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel? How could R' Eliezer have cited the opinion of R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel? The Talmud answers: Rather, the reason R' Elazar ruled that the halakha is in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer in that case was because R' Ḥan
And does R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel really hold in accordance with R' Eliezer’s opinion? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: On the night of Yom Kippur, one prays 7 blessings in the Amida prayer and confesses; in the morning prayer, one prays 7 blessings and confesses; in the additional prayer, one prays
R' Ḥanina ben Gamliel says in the name of his forefathers: One recites the complete 18 blessings, due to the fact that he is required to recite havdala in the 4th blessing of the Amida: Who graciously grants knowledge. Havdala cannot be inserted into the abridged version. Evidently, R' Ḥanina ben G
§ Earlier, R' Zeira questioned the claim of R' Pedat, son of R' Eliezer, that the Sage who holds that balsam is considered to be fruit and therefore has the sanctity of the Sabbatical Year is R' Eliezer. R' Yirmeya said to R' Zeira: And you? Do you not hold that the tanna who taught that balsam sap
The Talmud answers: You may even say that the Mishnah that deals with balsam is in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis. As the Rabbis disagree with R' Eliezer only with regard to the sap of the tree, but in the case of the sap of the fruit they agree with him. As we learned in a Mishnah (Orla