[Avodah] Birchat Hagomeil

[Rich, Joel]

Berachot 54b is the source gemara for this bracha.  In the give and take concerning how many must be present to recite the bracha, the gemara debates whether 2 of the 10 must be talmidei chachamim based on competing interpretations of a pasuk in tehilim. Let's assume for now that this debate took place when because Chazal instituted this bracha after the churban (don't ask me which bayit) since before then one would bring a karban toda.  Which would you assume came first - that some of chazal had an idea that there was a reason to have talmidei chachamim in there and the pasuk was an asmachta, or that they had no predisposition and looked at the pasuk (albeit in tehillim) and determined that HKB"H had influenced the writer to word it in such a way so that chazal would know this was the proper approach?
KT
Joel Rich

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