Sukkah 49b Part 4/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

In which three ways is chesed greater than tzedakah, and what makes a Torah a Torah of chesed? The Gemara calls learning lishma a Torah of chesed, and lishma means learning to feel connected to Hashem. Back in the Mishnah, the water for nisuch hamayim on Shabbos is drawn Erev Shabbos in a golden barrel that is not holy. With Rashi, the Gemara asks why a holy vessel would not do, and infers two assumptions of the Tanna.

Key points

• The Gemara counts three ways chesed surpasses tzedakah: with the body, to the rich, and to the dead.
• One reading of the pasuk: loving tzedakah and mishpat lets Hashem answer by filling the world with chesed.
• The Gemara shows the Torah begins with chesed, clothing Adam and Chava, and ends with Hashem burying Moshe.
• Torah lishma is learning to feel connected to Hashem, not cold learning only because He commanded.
• The Gemara infers the Tanna holds no maximum for the water, and a kli shareis sanctifies without daas.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Opening
2. 2:35Chesed greater than tzedakah
3. 3:42Loving tzedakah fills the world with chesed
4. 7:06Chen and yiras shamayim
5. 9:29Torah of chesed and Torah lishma
6. 16:06Mishnah: water for nisuch hamayim on Shabbos
7. 20:27Rashi on bringing a holy vessel
8. 24:42The Tanna's two assumptions

Topics

• Torah Lishma
• Nisuch HaMayim
• Kli Shareis