R. Yochanan took an olive and blessed before and after [eating] it. R. Chiya bar Va was looking at him [in astonishment];

R. Yochanan: Babylonian, why do you stare at me? Do you not hold that anything from the seven species requires a Brachah before it and after it?!

Remark: [R. Chiya bar Va] agrees [that anything from the seven species requires a Brachah before it and after it]. It was difficult to him (SEDEI YEHOSHUA), for the pit reduces it [from the Shi'ur! We say a Brachah Acharonah only for the volume of an olive including the pit, and R. Yochanan ate the olive without the pit.]

Question: How can R. Yochanan answer this?

Answer: [He said a Brachah Acharonah] due to a Beriyah (a complete creation).

Inference: R. Yochanan's teaching shows that even if one ate one grape or one pomegranate seed, it needs a Brachah before and after.

Wine - when it is like it is, Chai (undiluted), one says on it Borei Peri ha'Etz and one may use it to wash his hands. When it is mixed [with water], one says on it Borei Peri ha'Gefen and one may not use it to wash his hands. R. Eliezer says so;

Chachamim say, whether it is Chai or mixed, one says on it Borei Peri ha'Gefen and one may not use it to wash his hands.

Question (R. Aba): [Does R. Eliezer hold that undiluted wine,] the Isur of wasting food does not apply to it?! (CHAREDIM)

(R. Yakov bar Zavdi citing R. Avahu): Olive oil - one says on it Borei Peri ha'Etz.

Support (R. Chiya bar Papa, in front of R. Ze'ira - Mishnah): [For fruits of a tree we say Borei Pri ha'Etz,] except for wine. On wine we say Borei Pri ha'Gafen;

Is wine not minced [grapes], and it says 'except for wine'?! This implies that other matters, even if they are minced, [regarding Brachah] they are intact!

(R. Aba): Rav and Shmuel - both of them say that cooked Yerek, we say on it sheha'Kol Nihyah bi'Dvaro.

(R. Ze'ira citing Shmuel): Turnip heads that were cooked - if they are intact, one says on them Borei Peri ha'Adamah. If he minced them, he says on them sheha'Kol Nihyah bi'Dvaro.

Objection (R. Yosi - Mishnah): [On things that grow from the ground we say Borei Pri ha'Adamah,] except for bread. On bread we say ha'Motzi Lechem Min ha'Aretz. Is bread not minced, and it says 'except for bread?! This implies that other matters, even if they are minced, [regarding Brachah] they are intact!