Sukkah 45b Part 5/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Does a mitzvah that lasts over time get a new bracha, and does a mitzvah d'Rabbanan get a bracha at all? Rava's own practice with tefillin shows a new bracha after a real hefsek. Rav requires a bracha on lighting ner Chanukah, which shows a bracha on a d'Rabbanan, and the Gemara finds the command for it in the pasuk of lo sasur. From there the sugya turns to the brachos of the one who lights and the one who only sees.

Key points

• Rabbah bar bar Chana, quoting Rabbi Yochanan, has sukkah brachos all seven days but lulav only one.
• An eyewitness saw Rava make a new tefillin bracha each time after the bathroom.
• The Gemara reasons from the tzitz, with one Shem, that tefillin with 21 call for constant awareness.
• Rav requires a bracha on lighting ner Chanukah, showing a bracha on a d'Rabbanan.
• The Gemara finds the command behind a bracha on a d'Rabbanan in the pasuk of lo sasur.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rabbah bar bar Chana on sukkah and lulav
2. 3:01Tefillin as a continuous mitzvah
3. 10:40Touching tefillin and the tzitz
4. 17:01The bracha on lulav all seven days
5. 21:35The bracha on ner Chanukah
6. 26:33How the Rabbanan can command us
7. 29:23Why a d'Rabbanan is not d'Oraisa
8. 33:55Which Chanukah bracha drops after day one

Topics

• Birchas HaMitzvos
• Tefillin
• Lulav
• Ner Chanukah