Sukkah 48b Part 4/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why can't uncovered wine simply be strained of snake venom, as Rav Nechemya allows? The Gemara answers that even Rav Nechemya allows straining only for a layman's drink, not for what goes on the Mizbeach, as the pasuk in Malachi teaches. The Mishnah of the chalil follows, and Rashi ties all the simcha of Simchas Beis HaShoevah to drawing the water. At its core that joy is the yearning to be close to Hashem.

Key points

• Rav Nechemya holds snake venom floats like a sponge, so straining it out removes the concern.
• The Gemara limits Rav Nechemya's straining to a hedyot, never for the Mizbeach, based on Malachi.
• The halacha today sees no concern of giluy without snakes, but the Vilna Gaon disagrees.
• The Shulchan Aruch bars kiddush on uncovered wine, and the Mishnah Berurah applies this even today.
• In the Midrash the lower waters cried to be near Hashem and were given nisuch hamayim and salt.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Uncovered liquids and the strainer question
2. 6:23Hedyot versus Gavoah, the pasuk in Malachi
3. 11:10Giluy in halacha today
4. 13:29Kiddush on uncovered wine
5. 17:23Straining and borer on Shabbos
6. 19:44Mishnah of the chalil
7. 24:46The girsos sho'eva and chashuva
8. 28:42Midrash of the lower waters

Topics

• Giluy
• Kiddush
• Simchas Beis HaShoevah
• Nisuch HaMayim