**HaMotzi lechem:**The sages decreed that we should say HaMotzi lechem min ha’aretz, but there is a question whether the blessing should be Motzi lechem…in stead of HaMotzi.¹¹⁵ 38a. Everyone agrees that Motzi implies past tense: “God brought forth bread from the earth.” The question is what the implications ofHaMotzi: does it imply the past or the future? On the one hand, we learn that in the Garden of Eden, God literally caused the bread to sprout forth from the earth. On the other hand the same is predicted for the end of time; in the end of time, when the sin in the garden has been rectified, God will cause the bread to come forth from the earth. When we say HaMotzi, then, we imply that it refers to both the past and the future, while Motzi would only apply to the past.

footnotes: ¹¹⁵ See Talmud Berachot