Sukkah 36a Part 2/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Do the simanei treifah of an animal carry over to an esrog? The Gemara asks whether an esrog whose flesh liquefied while its inner seed chamber stayed whole compares to a lung poured out like a pitcher. A long beraisa of pesulim fails to settle it. Then a contradiction about a black esrog, a kushi, leads to Abaye's answer and to Rava's, which Rashi explains by how usual an Ethiopian esrog is in each place.

Key points

• The Gemara pasuls a hole through the whole esrog at any size, a pressed spot only at an isar.
• The Gemara suggests a liquefied lung can heal since air cannot reach it, unlike an open esrog.
• The Gemara finds the beraisa cannot settle it, since tafuach and saruach can both be outside.
• Abaye reads the pasul kushi as only domeh l'kushi, a black esrog grown outside Kush.
• Rava splits Eretz Yisrael from Bavel, and Rashi ties it to how usual Ethiopian esrogim are.

In this shiur

1. 0:00A hole through the esrog
2. 1:54Simanei treifah in an esrog
3. 3:20A lung poured like a pitcher
4. 8:43The beraisa's list of pesulim
5. 14:04Tafuach and saruach
6. 16:53The contradiction about esrog kushi
7. 22:12Rava and Rashi on halan v'hala'hu
8. 27:01A map question on Rashi

Topics

• Esrog
• Arba Minim
• Hiddur Mitzvah