Sukkah 46a Part 2/6

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Does Rav require a bracha on lulav after the first day of Succos, when the mitzvah is only d'Rabbanan? The Gemara proves it from Rav's bracha on Chanukah lights, then brings Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak's direct version about lulav. Along the way come the brachos of one who only sees the lights, and three reasons in the commentary at the bottom of the page why only Chanukah has such a bracha. A question stays open for next time: why can't one who sees a sukkah say its shehecheyanu?

Key points

• The Gemara has the one who lights say three brachos the first night, the one who sees two.
• Heichan tzivanu is answered from lo sasur, or from she'al avicha, both commanding us to heed the Chachamim.
• The Gemara drops shehecheyanu after the first night, but not She'asah Nissim, since there was a nes daily.
• A chiddush in a later sefer: perhaps Chazal instituted brachos only for mitzvos lasting after Moshiach.
• The bottom commentary's third reason: no new bracha was set for one who only sees.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Brachos on lulav after the first day
2. 1:41Rav's proof from Chanukah lights
3. 5:01Heichan tzivanu
4. 9:48Which bracha drops after the first night
5. 12:29Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak's direct version
6. 14:24A later sefer on mitzvos after Moshiach
7. 16:34The bracha of seeing in the commentary
8. 24:40The commentary's third reason

Topics

• Brachos on Mitzvos d'Rabbanan
• Lulav
• Ner Chanukah
• Birchas HaRo'eh