Sukkah 48a Part 2/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How do we know there is simcha on Shemini Atzeres? The Gemara learns from v'hayisa ach sameach that the last night of Yom Tov is included, and Rashi says the day all the more so. The Gemara includes the last night rather than the first because simcha comes before it. The next Mishnah teaches how to leave the sukkah on Hoshana Rabbah.

Key points

• The Mishnah counts Hillel and simcha for eight days, Shemini Atzeres included, with meat of shelamim.
• Including the first night would mean bringing a korban before Yom Tov, a big chiddush.
• The Vilna Gaon reads ach as excluding sukkah and lulav, leaving only simcha after Succos.
• The Mishnah leaves the sukkah standing on Hoshana Rabbah, bringing the kelim down after mincha.
• Without another place to eat, the Gemara has four tefachim of schach removed, or a ner brought in.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mishnah of Hillel and simcha eight days
2. 4:17The pesukim in the Chumash
3. 5:51Gemara on v'hayisa ach sameach
4. 10:02Why the last night and not the first
5. 12:36The Vilna Gaon on ach as a miut
6. 15:41Mishnah of sukkah shivah
7. 21:30No place to bring down the kelim
8. 23:20Bal tosif after the mitzvah

Topics

• Simchas Yom Tov
• Shemini Atzeres
• Hoshana Rabbah