Reply To: Chidushim on Daf Yomi

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As mentioned before from Tosfas to place the ten fingers on the two chalas because there are ten mitzvos involved until eating bread. The MB s’k 24 there enumerates them. When it comes to plowing: don’t plow with an ox and a donkey. At planting: don’t plant your field with kilaim. At threshing: do not block an ox at threshing, leket, shikcha, peah, teruma, maaser 1, maaser 2, and chalah.

Salt is necessary for multiple reasons and therefore it is not a hafsek between washing and brocho to ask for salt. Say מלח or salt. In SA O’CH 165,5 explains that it a mitzva to put salt on the table as the table is like a mizbeach and it protects from punishment in between mitzvos. The Chasam Sofer on friday night did not dunk his chalah in salt as they were no left over sacrifices.

The Magen Avraham (167,18) makes a difference between eating and drinking when it comes to feed the animals first. The Ohr Hachaim Hakadash Bereishis (24,19) explains that by Rivka, Eliezer came before the camels because when it comes to danger or pain of thirst the human being comes before the animals. My son said, that maybe camels are different because they are able to hold the water longer, so they don’t get thirsty so fast.