Sukkah 48b Part 3/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

When the keren of the Mizbeach was damaged in the episode of the tzeduki who poured the nisuch hamayim on his feet, what made the Mizbeach pasul? A beraisa lists what every Mizbeach needs to be fit for avodah. The Gemara then turns to the shitin, the hollow channels under the Mizbeach that reach down to the tehom. These shitin are drawn from a pasuk in Shir HaShirim and from the Navi's song of the vineyard.

Key points

• Rashi has stones thrown along with the esrogim, since esrogim alone could not damage the Mizbeach.
• In the beraisa, the salt sealed the damage so the Mizbeach would not look blemished, not to make it kosher.
• The beraisa makes a Mizbeach pasul without its ramp, corners, foundation or perfect squareness.
• The Gemara reads the hidden thigh in Shir HaShirim as the hollow shitin reaching the tehom.
• In the beraisa's reading of the Navi's vineyard, the tower is the Mizbeach and the vat is the shitin.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Opening
2. 1:29The tzeduki and the nisuch hamayim
3. 3:06What makes a Mizbeach pasul
4. 4:57Shitin from the six days of creation
5. 6:18The pasuk in Shir HaShirim
6. 9:38Bereishis read as bara shis
7. 11:23The Navi's song of the vineyard
8. 16:08Vineyard, tower and vat explained

Topics

• Nisuch HaMayim
• Mizbeach
• Shitin
• Beis HaMikdash