Sukkah 47a Part 2/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How can the Gemara have us sit in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres, and how could the gedolei hador skip the sukkah altogether? Sitting without a bracha can pass as kishmach, simply enjoying the weather, while shaking lulav and esrog would be a plain zilzul of Yom Tov. For the gedolei hador we see a girsa fix in the name of Reb Chaim Berlin and a cheshbon of the Ohr Sameach built on keeping one day of Yom Tov outside a yishuv.

Key points

• The Gemara's halacha, clear in Shulchan Aruch, is sitting in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres without a bracha.
• Shaking lulav and esrog on Shemini Atzeres would be a definite zilzul, unlike sitting for kishmach.
• In freezing Eastern Europe, sitting in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres would itself look like zilzul.
• In the name of Reb Chaim Berlin, the girsa is read as Ifra, a king the gedolim petitioned.
• The Ohr Sameach shows their first-day bracha could not cover Shemini Atzeres once they returned to town.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The Gemara's two versions on Shemini Atzeres
2. 2:03Sukkah on Shemini Atzeres without a bracha
3. 2:23Lulav, kishmach and zilzul
4. 3:19Chassidim, Kabbalah and the cold
5. 6:44Why the gedolei hador skipped the sukkah
6. 8:28Ohr Sameach and minhag hamakom
7. 12:43The Ohr Sameach's cheshbon of brachos
8. 21:24Rashi's reading of the sugya

Topics

• Shemini Atzeres
• Leishev Basukkah
• Yom Tov Sheni
• Zilzul