Rosh Hashanah 31a Part 3/8

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Which song did the Levi'im sing each day in the Beis HaMikdash, and why? Rabbi Akiva ties each weekday's song to that day of creation and the Shabbos song to a future day entirely Shabbos. Rabbi Nechemia keeps Shabbos in the past, when Hashem rested. The Gemara ties their machlokes to Rav Ketina and Abaye, and then teaches that the Musaf song of Shabbos, Haziv Lach, is the six divisions of Shiras Haazinu.

Key points

• Rabbi Akiva ties each weekday's shir shel yom to what Hashem did on that day of creation.
• Rabbi Nechemia reads the Shabbos song as being about Hashem resting, in the past like the other days.
• The Gemara ties the machlokes to Rav Ketina's one thousand years of destruction against Abaye's two thousand.
• One commentator reads the Shabbos song as praise for the finished creation, not for kedushas Shabbos.
• The Gemara has Haazinu divided in shul exactly as its six divisions are given here.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Opening
2. 1:28The shir shel yom of each day
3. 7:56Ceasing to exist versus destruction
4. 11:08Rav Ketina and Abaye
5. 15:35Explaining the Shabbos song
6. 20:43The Musaf song, Haziv Lach
7. 26:57The aliyos of Parshas Haazinu
8. 29:15The song at Mincha

Topics

• Shir Shel Yom
• Shiras Haazinu
• Krias HaTorah