Pesach: Tenai on the Afikoman Before Chatzos

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Can a person make a tanai on a mitzvah, as the Avnei Nezer suggests for eating the afikoman by chatzos on Seder night? The Gemara in Kesubos ties a tanai to shlichus, which seems to leave no tanai for mitzvos done with one's own body. Yet tanaim are used for tefillin on Chol HaMoed, for the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres and for sefira. One commentary on the sugya and the Magen Avraham point toward a tanai made on the kavana rather than on the act.

Key points

• The Gemara allows no tanai on chalitza, since chalitza cannot be done through a shliach.
• The Mishnah Berurah has tefillin on Chol HaMoed put on without a bracha, with a tanai.
• One commentary reads the Gemara this way: a spoken tanai does not undo a maaseh gamur.
• Read this way, the Magen Avraham's tanai on sefira is made on the kavana, not the act.
• The Brisker Rav sees no call for a tanai, since the afikoman is the last matzah eaten.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Afikoman by chatzos and the Avnei Nezer
2. 1:12Chalitza mutaas in the Gemara
3. 9:36Why shlichus and tanai go together
4. 11:42Tefillin on Chol HaMoed
5. 21:53Sitting in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres
6. 26:55Maaseh gamur and the tanai
7. 30:46Counting sefira early with a tanai
8. 34:27The Magen Avraham on sefira
9. 42:24Tanai on kavana and chalitza
10. 46:00The Avnei Nezer inside
11. 49:35The Brisker Rav on the afikoman

Topics

• Afikoman
• Tanai
• Chalitza
• Sefiras HaOmer