Sukkah 45b Part 2/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Where does Rabbi Yochanan ben Beroka get that a palm branch is taken in place of the aravah? Rav Huna ties the machlokes with the Rabbanan to whether kapos is learned as read or as written. Rabbi Levi gives a sevara from the tamar's single heart instead. The Gemara then asks how many brachos the lulav and the sukkah get, a three-way machlokes that Rabbi Yosef settles for the sukkah alone.

Key points

• Rav Huna rests the machlokes on kapos, read as plural but written without a vav.
• Rabbi Levi compares Klal Yisrael to the tamar, with one heart toward their Father in heaven.
• Shmuel gives the lulav a bracha each day, since night breaks the mitzvah, but the sukkah one.
• In Rabba bar bar Chana's report, Rabbi Yochanan gives a bracha only where the mitzvah is d'Oraisa.
• Following Rashi, Rabbi Yosef accepts seven sukkah brachos because both reports of Rabbi Yochanan agree on it.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The heading of the Gemara
2. 0:53Rav Huna on kapos
3. 5:12Rabbi Levi and the tamar's one heart
4. 9:31Shmuel on brachos for lulav and sukkah
5. 16:10Rabba bar bar Chana for Rabbi Yochanan
6. 22:03Ravin's report of Rabbi Yochanan
7. 23:17Rabbi Yosef's psak and Rashi
8. 26:38Two questions still ahead

Topics

• Arba Minim
• Lulav
• Sukkah
• Brachos