Berachos 2a - Part 2

The gemara asks two questions on the mishna:

Question #1: The Mishna says "from when do we recite shma in the evening?". What does from when mean? It sounds like the mishna is picking up from some previous statement.

Question #2: Wouldn't it be more logical to start the mesechta with the halachos of the morning shma and not the evening one?

The gemara gives two answers:

Answer #1: The tanna of the mishna is picking up off the pasuk that says that you read the shma b'shachbacha uv'kumecha, when you lie down and when you arise.

Answer #2: The tanna of the mishna learnt out from the creation of the world that evening precedes morning. As it says in Bereishis, V'Yihi Erev V'Yihi Boker, and it was evening and it was morning.

The gemara questions this idea that the tanna likes to always put evening before morning, because this principle seems contradicted by a later mishna on 11a. Here is that mishna:

Mishna 11a: In the morning [shma] one makes two berachos before the shma and one bracha after. In the evening shma there are two berachos before and two after.

This mishna is clearly problematic because it is listing morning before evening.

The gemara explains the logic of the tanna as follows:

The tanna of the mishna first starts with the evening shma in our mishna. Then the tanna moves on the the morning shma. Once the tanna has mentioned the morning shma the tanna decides to go into some of the details of the morning shma. Then, the tanna goes back to discuss the details of the evening shma.