Sukkah 37b to 38a (chazara)

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Where do we shake the lulav, and where does nanuim come from? The Gemara traces the shaking to the waving of the shtei halechem, out and back, up and down, and brings two readings of what it means. We see that even the shirei mitzvah, the parts of a mitzvah that are not essential, can hold back calamity. Later come the question of stopping a meal for lulav and the Mishnah on Hillel read by an eved, a woman or a katan.

Key points

• The Mishnah has the lulav shaken at Hodu, beginning and end, and at Ana Hashem hoshia na.
• Rabbi Yochanan reads the waving as acknowledging the One whose four directions, heaven and earth belong.
• In Eretz Yisrael the waving was read as holding back bad winds and bad dews.
• The Gemara learns from the tenufah that shirei mitzvah, the non-essential parts, hold back calamities.
• The Gemara agrees calling it an arrow in the Satan's eye is true, yet not something to say.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Where in Hillel we shake
2. 3:38Who mentioned nanuim
3. 5:32Waving the shtei halechem in Menachos
4. 8:17Meaning of the directions
5. 11:06Shirei mitzvah hold back calamities
6. 16:23An arrow in the Satan's eye
7. 19:55Stopping a meal for lulav
8. 34:07Hillel read by a katan

Topics

• Nanuim
• Lulav
• Shirei Mitzvah
• Hillel