(Beraisa): They would not answer Amen in the Mikdash.

What would they say? Baruch Shem Kevod Malchuso l'Olam va'Ed.

Question: What is the source that they did not answer Amen in the Mikdash?

Answer: "Kumu Barchu Es Hash-m [...vi'Varchu Shem Kevodecha]."

Question: What is the source that one must say so for each Berachah?

Answer: "U'Merumam Al Kol Berachah u'Sehilah."

(R. Yehoshua of the south): Beis Din below decreed three matters, and the Beis Din above agreed with them;

These are [the three] - the Cherem of [spoils from] Yericho, Megilas Esther, and greeting people with Hash-m's name.

[We learn] the Cherem of Yericho from "Chata Yisrael." (Why does it say so?) Was it not Yehoshua who decreed? Rather, this teaches that the Beis Din above agreed with them.

[We learn] Megilas Esther from "Kiymo v'Kiblu";

(Rav): It is written "v'Kabel" (singular, i.e. Hash-m. It is pronounced v'Kiblu, i.e. His Beis Din. - CHAREDIM) This teaches that they agreed.

[We learn] greeting people with Hash-m's name from "v'Hinei Bo'az Ba mi'Beis Lechem... [va'Yomer la'Kotzrim Hash-m Imachem]."

What is the source that the Beis Din above agreed with them? It says "va'Yera Elav Malach Hash-m va'Yomer Elav Hash-m Imcha Gibor ha'Chayil."

Note: This verse was said to Gid'on. Bo'az, who is the Shofet Avtzan, was five Shoftim and over 100 years later! MAHARA FULDA suggests that R. Yehoshua Daromiya holds that Bo'az married Rus early in his lifetime. MAHARSHA (Makos 23b) cites Midrashim that he married Rus at the end of his life; he left this difficult. ARUCH L'NER (ibid.) says that when Bo'az enacted, he did not know the verse; Shmuel wrote Sefer Shoftim afterwards. TOSFOS SHANTZ (ibid.) says that Bo'az did according to a previous enactment (i.e. before Gid'on). If so, the wording of the Bavli (perhaps Bo'az did on his own) is imprecise Perhaps "Hash-m Imcha Gibor ha'Chayil" hints to Hash-m's consent, for it is essentially the same Brachah that Boaz gave ("Hash-m Imachem"), and Bo'az is called "Gibor Chayil" (Rus 2:1). At the time, Bo'az did not know that a verse would call him Gibor Chayil. (PF)

(R. Avun citing R. Yehoshua ben Levi): Also Ma'aseros (in Bayis Sheni they were exempt, and decreed to obligate themselves). It says "Havi'u Es Kol ha'Ma'aser... [va'Harikosi Lachem Berachah Ad Bli Dai." Hash-m's blessing shows that He agreed.)

Question: What does it mean "Ad Bli Dai"?

Answer #1 (R. Yosi bar Shimon bar Ba citing R. Yochanan): Something that it is impossible to say 'enough', this is Brachah [of rain].

Answer #2 (R. BeraChiya and R. Chelbo and R. Aba bar Ila'i citing Rav): It is until your lips will wear out from saying 'enough Brachos for us! Enough Brachos for us!'

"V'Al Tavuz Ki Zaknah Imecha" - R. Yosi bei R. Bun said, if Divrei Torah became old in your mouth (you reviewed them many times, and you are not concerned lest you forget), do not disgrace them (i.e. abandon them). What is the source? V'Al Tavuz Ki Zaknah Imecha. (We explained this like CHAREDIM.)

(R. Ze'ira): If your nation became old (is slackening from Mitzvos), fence it, like Elkanah did. He directed Yisrael to ascend [to the Mishkan] on the festivals - "v'Alah ha'Ish ha'Hu me'Iro..." (CHAREDIM - it did not say va'Ya'al, rather, v'Alah. We can read Alah like Alei (he told others to ascend).)

(Mishnah): "Es La'asos la'Shem Heferu Torasecha."

R. Nasan switches the order of verses [and expounds] Heferu Torasecha Es La'asos la'Shem.

Explanation (R. Chikiyah): One who makes his Torah (something he engages in only at cetain) times, he annuls the Bris. What is the source? Heferu Torasecha Es La'asos la'Shem.

(Beraisa - R. Shimon ben Yochai): If you see people despaired from [properly learning] Torah, stand and strengthen yourself in it greatly, and you will receive the reward of all of them.

What is the source? Heferu Torasecha Es La'asos la'Shem.

Hillel ha'Zaken used to say, at a time when people gather (do not disseminate Torah), spread [it]. At a time when people spread, gather.

And so Hillel used to say, if you see that Torah is dear to people and everyone is hapy with it, spread. If not, gather.

(R. Elazar): Just like a baby needs to nurse every hour of the day, so every Yisrael needs to toil in Torah every hour of the day.

(R. Yonah citing R. Yosi ben Gezeirah): All speech is bad, but speech of Torah is good. All Sheker [for the sake of Shalom] is good, but [even such] Sheker in Torah is bad (CHAREDIM).

(Reish Lakish): In Megilas Chasidim it was found written 'if one day you will abandon Me, I will abandon you two days.' [A parable for this is] two who left - one from Tiverya and one from Tziporin. They met at an inn. When they left each other, after the time that this one went one Mil (in his direction) and this one went one Mil (in the opposite direction), it turns out they were two Mil apart.

[Another parable for this is] a woman who was sitting waiting for a [particular] man [to marry her]. As long as he intended to marry her, she sat and waited for him.

Once he diverted his mind from [marrying] her, she went and married another man.