Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

I heard about Havdalah, there are different ways to differentiate. We use them from lower to higher: taste, smell, sight and the mind. Not everyone would know how to blow a shofar for sound. It says by Korach that in the morning Hashem will reveal who folows Him. The Dubner Magid has a mashel. A man goes to a store at night having a candle burning. He wants to buy some material for a suit. The dealer shows him different colors and thinkness, so he says I don’t care, I just need the suit to cover myself. So the dealer puts out the light and tells him. if you don’t care and there is no difference to you, you don’t need a light. A light is there to differentiate. This is the first brocho we make in the morning to thank Hashem that we can differentiate between night and day, good and bad, and right and wrong. Many make havdalah sitting as the Rambam Hilchas Shabbos (29,18) holds that havdalah is like kiddush.