The wise man, his eyes are in his head.”
How do you measure a day? We learned in the first Tractate of this Daf Yomi journey that it is from sundown to sundown, and the most sanctified day of the week is Shabbat. We are asked to consider today why we recite kiddush at night when the verse in Exodus (20:7) says “remember the day of Shabbat to sanctify it.”
The voice of the Gemara reminds us that the
“essential mitzva of kiddush is to sanctify the day at night.” So, why all the energy to determine if what was really meant was that the kiddush should be recited during Shabbat day? It seems like there is some hair-splitting in the kiddush discussion, which has been going on for days.