Sukkah 48b Part 2/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Mishnah need one spout thick and one thin? The Gemara first ties this to Rabbi Yehuda, who has less water poured than wine, then shows that even the Rabbanan need it, because wine is thick and water is thin. The Gemara then turns to the Tzeduki who poured the water on his feet, the corner of the mizbeach that was chipped, and the Shittin, the hollow under the mizbeach created in the six days of creation.

Key points

• The Gemara concludes that even the Rabbanan, with equal amounts, need a thick and a thin spout.
• A beraisa shows Rabbi Yehuda speaks of a wide bowl and a narrow bowl, a different expression.
• The salt sealing the chipped corner did not make the mizbeach kosher, only kept it from looking damaged.
• The Gemara calls a mizbeach lacking kevesh, keren, yesod or ribua pasul for the avodah.
• The Gemara reads chamukei yerechayich in Shir HaShirim as the Shittin, hollow down to the tehom.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Opening
2. 1:04The thick and thin spouts
3. 4:56Open questions on the bowls
4. 6:55The Tzeduki and the esrogim
5. 9:53What makes a mizbeach pasul
6. 12:15Pictures of the mizbeach levels
7. 15:34The Shittin under the mizbeach
8. 21:34Tana d'vei Rabbi Shmuel on Bereishis

Topics

• Nisuch HaMayim
• Mizbeach
• Shittin