Sukkah 51b Part 3/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Which Beis HaMikdash did Chazal mean when they said one who never saw it never saw a beautiful building? The Gemara answers that it is the one Hordus rebuilt in colored marble, which the Rabbanan told him to leave without gold because it looks like ocean waves. The Gemara's account of the great shul of Alexandria, where a sudar signaled amen, leads into amen yesoma in Rashi, another Rishon and the Shulchan Aruch.

Key points

• The Gemara's praise refers to the Beis HaMikdash as Hordus rebuilt it, in colored marble.
• A thought heard from Rav Hutner: value the Beis HaMikdash like a wave before it breaks.
• The Gemara's Alexandria basilica held double the number who left Mitzrayim, with 71 golden chairs.
• Rashi allows such an amen when one knows the bracha, another Rishon only when not yotzei.
• The Rama is machmir, against answering amen to an unheard bracha even when not yotzei.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Hordus's Beis HaMikdash
2. 4:05Like the waves of the ocean
3. 9:05The basilica of Alexandria
4. 11:25Pictures of the Beis HaMikdash
5. 20:58Crowds and golden chairs in Alexandria
6. 24:41Amen yesoma in Brachos
7. 29:42A second shitah on being yotzei
8. 34:49The Shulchan Aruch and the Rama
9. 38:46Baruch Hu u'Varuch Shemo and amen

Topics

• Beis HaMikdash
• Amen Yesoma
• Alexandria