In the previous shiur, we finished discussing the gemara’s refinements to the kushya with the derivation from the verse with which the gemara began. Then we continued in the gemara, reading and translating and breaking down the next part of the discussion into its component parts. We identified the logical flow but did not fully discuss the style of the gemara’s language and how to understand what is being done with the Torah sources. Please review what we have done and if there are questions up to this point on the language I will be happy to answer them at the beginning of this shiur.
In this shiur, we will discuss in depth the latter chunk of gemara, which will take us down towards the end of this sugya, to the two dots 5 lines before the bottom of Berachot 35a. We will attempt to understand the logic of the midrashic method employed by the amoraim that is called בנין אב, and the related type of drash called מה הצד.