Sukkah 45a Part 1/3

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How was the mitzvah of aravah done in the Beis HaMikdash? The Mishnah has aravos gathered from Motza below Yerushalayim and stood around the mizbeach, with tekios and a daily circling. Rabbi Yehuda says Ani vaho in place of Ana Hashem, and Rashi traces it to the 72-letter name in three pesukim of Beshalach. A commentary on the page, citing Eichah Rabbasi, reads it as asking Hashem to save the two of us, since Hashem is in golus with us.

Key points

• For the view that the aravah was carried around, a side commentary puts circling before standing.
• Circling once a day and seven times on the last day echoes Yehoshua circling Yericho.
• Rashi gives Ani vaho the same gematria as Ana Hashem, so it means the same.
• Rashi builds Ani vaho from three 72-letter pesukim in Beshalach, the middle one read backwards.
• A side commentary, citing Eichah Rabbasi, reads Ani vaho as asking Hashem to save us both.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The Mishnah: aravos from Motza
2. 1:18Side commentary on circling with aravah
3. 6:29Circling Yericho in Navi
4. 8:26Ramban on the Torah before Matan Torah
5. 11:57Rashi and the pesukim in Beshalach
6. 24:42The side commentary on Ani vaho
7. 32:34The Belzer Rebbe during World War I
8. 34:24Question: why these pesukim
9. 37:23Reviewing the Mishnah from the top

Topics

• Mitzvos Aravah
• Ani Vaho
• Shem Ayin Beis