The last sugiyah of the seventh chapter is the source of a well-known halakha concerning Havdalah, the ceremony that separates Shabbat from the weekday.
“The Gemara clarifies other similar cases not mentioned in the baraita. If the husband said: This is your bill of divorce if I do not come back after a week, then what is the halakha? The Gemara answers: Rabbi Zeira sat before Rabbi Asi, and some say that it was Rabbi Asi who sat before Rabbi Yoḥanan, and he said the following: Sunday and Monday and Tuesday are called after Shabbat. Wednesday and Thursday and Friday are all called prior to Shabbat.” (Sefaria.org translation)
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday enjoys
the previous Shabbat’s afterglow. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, a person
begins to look forward to and prepare for the next Shabbat. That’s why when a
person doesn’t say Havdalah on
Saturday night, he may do so up to Tuesday morning. It’s too late to recite of Havdalah on Wednesday because Wednesday
is already attached to the next Shabbat.
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