Sukkah 53b Part 4/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Is tekiah, teruah, tekiah one mitzvah or three? Rabbi Yehuda holds one and the Rabbanan three, each bringing a pasuk from the parsha of the chatzotzros and answering the other's. Then, with Rashi's mesorah that Succos had only twelve extra blasts, the Gemara ties our Mishnah to a Tanna who blew at the mizbeach and not on the tenth step. Mishnayos learned before, read again, each come to twelve blasts.

Key points

• Rabbi Yehuda learns one mitzvah from the Torah using tekiah and teruah interchangeably.
• The Rabbanan ask whether the Torah, commanding only a tekiah for gathering, would command half a mitzvah.
• Rabbi Yehuda calls the gathering blast just a siman, like a school bell, not a mitzvah.
• The Gemara says Rav Kahana's rule of no break beyond a breath follows Rabbi Yehuda.
• A beraisa puts three blasts on the tenth step, while another Tanna puts them at the mizbeach.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbanan on tekiah teruah
2. 4:38The Rabbanan's pasuk of gathering
3. 5:53A siman or a mitzvah
4. 9:27Rav Kahana and the break between blasts
5. 10:41Rav Yochanan's nine tekiyos
6. 14:23Twelve additional blasts on Succos
7. 21:10Tenth step or the mizbeach
8. 25:47Looking back at the Mishnayos learned

Topics

• Tekiah Teruah
• Chatzotzros
• Beis HaMikdash
• Succos