Sukkah 47a Part 1/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

In golus Shemini Atzeres is a safek of Hoshana Rabbah, so how is the sukkah treated that day? In the Gemara everyone agrees to sit in the sukkah, and Rav and Rabbi Yochanan dispute only the bracha leishev basukkah. Sitting there is like enjoying a back porch, while the bracha would belittle Shemini Atzeres as a Yom Tov of its own. The proof for Rabbi Yochanan from gedolim who sat without a bracha stands, because those gedolim came from the pasture.

Key points

• The Gemara rules like Abaye: in golus the esrog stays muktzeh through Shemini Atzeres, until Simchas Torah.
• Rashi brings a Midrash: the Sukkos korbanos for the nations shrink, and Shemini Atzeres is Hashem's with us alone.
• In the Gemara all agree to sit in the sukkah, disputing only the bracha leishev basukkah.
• The Gemara proves Rabbi Yochanan's view from gedolim of the generation who sat in the sukkah without a bracha.
• The Gemara's kabbalah: those gedolim came from pasture and had not sat in a sukkah before.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Opening
2. 2:18Recap: the esrog as muktzeh
3. 6:59Shemini Atzeres as a separate Yom Tov
4. 10:01Rav and Rabbi Yochanan on Shemini Atzeres
5. 13:17Why sitting differs from the bracha
6. 17:41The proof from the gedolim
7. 19:05One bracha for the whole Yom Tov
8. 22:54Gemiri: they came from the pasture

Topics

• Shemini Atzeres
• Leishev Basukkah
• Muktzeh
• Sfeika D'Yoma