Rosh Hashanah 31a Part 2/8

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does each day's shir shel yom fit that day? Rabbi Yehuda in the name of Rabbi Akiva links each mizmor to that day of creation, and reads Shabbos's mizmor as the future day the world is destroyed. Rabbi Nechemia counters that Shabbos too refers to the past, the day Hashem rested. The Gemara ties the dispute to whether that destruction lasts one thousand years or two.

Key points

• The Rama explains Nusach Ashkenaz saves the passage of the spices for Shabbos, fearing weekday rushing drops one.
• For Rabbi Akiva, Sunday's mizmor recalls Hashem acquiring the world, giving it to mankind, and ruling it.
• Wednesday's mizmor: Hashem created sun and moon and will pay back those who serve them.
• Rabbi Akiva reads Shabbos's mizmor as the future day when the world is entirely destroyed.
• The Gemara ties the machlokes to Rav Katina's thousand years of destruction against Abaye's two thousand.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The shir shel yom beraisa
2. 1:51The spices passage and Nusach Ashkenaz
3. 4:05Sunday and Monday's mizmor
4. 7:45Tuesday, Wednesday, and the sun and moon
5. 10:34Thursday and Friday's mizmor
6. 13:54Shabbos's mizmor and the future
7. 18:15The Gemara's question and Rabbi Nechemia
8. 22:09Rav Katina and Abaye on destruction

Topics

• Shir Shel Yom