Sukkah 53a Part 6/7

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why are the fifteen songs called Shir HaMaalos, songs of ascent? Rav Chizda tells the story of David digging the shittin, when the tehom rose to flood the world. A chaspa with Hashem's name sent the water too deep, and David's 15 Shir HaMaalos brought it back up. We then learn the Mishnah of the 15 steps, ending with the Gemara's question about the tenth step.

Key points

• David asked whether Hashem's name may be written on a chaspa and thrown into the tehom.
• Achitofel reasoned that if the name is erased for peace in a home, surely for the world.
• After the tehom sank 16,000 amos, 15 Shir HaMaalos left it 1,000 amos down.
• Rav Mesharshi explains water close to the surface by the sulma, the ladder, of the Paras.
• Hashem's name Yud-Heh equals 15, and the tenth step splits the Yud from the Heh.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rav Chizda and the 15 Shir HaMaalos
2. 2:42David digs the shittin
3. 5:04Erasing Hashem's name to save the world
4. 6:16Achitofel's kal vachomer from sotah
5. 10:56The tehom sinks and rises again
6. 14:09How deep below the earth is water
7. 21:48The Mishnah of the fifteen steps
8. 24:39The question about the tenth step

Topics

• Shir HaMaalos
• Shittin
• David HaMelech