Sukkah 51a Part 1/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Is the ikar of the shira in the Beis HaMikdash the singing or the instruments? Each view brings a pasuk from a re-inauguration of the Beis HaMikdash, and the Gemara shows how each side reads the other's pasuk, leaving no maskana. The next Mishnah then opens the all-night simcha of Chol HaMoed, with golden menoros so high that no courtyard in Yerushalayim was left without their light.

Key points

• The view that the ikar is the kli brings a pasuk stressing the instruments of Dovid Melech Yisrael.
• The other view brings a pasuk placing the singers right beside the trumpeters.
• The Gemara answers that the instruments only sweetened the singing, or that the singers also played a kli.
• Even without a maskana, working through the kasha is itself Torah.
• The Mishnah opens that whoever never saw this simcha never saw simcha in his life.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Following the flow of the Gemara
2. 1:43Ikar shira b'kli or b'peh
3. 6:36Each side answers the other's pasuk
4. 14:20Chazara of the Gemara
5. 17:46Learning without a maskana
6. 18:32The next Mishnah on the all-night simcha
7. 20:13Going down to the Ezras Nashim
8. 24:15The golden menoros and their light

Topics

• Shira B'Beis HaMikdash
• Succos