Sukkah 36a Part 1/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Is a peeled esrog kosher or pasul? The Gemara reconciles Rava with the Mishnah by splitting fully peeled from partly peeled, and Rashi and Rabbeinu Chananel, brought by Tosfos, read the two cases in opposite directions. Along the way we learn the beraisa on a punctured esrog and Rava's question about an esrog with simanei treifa, which continues tomorrow.

Key points

• Rashi has a fully peeled esrog kosher, and a partly peeled one pasul as spotted.
• In the beraisa, a hole clean through is pasul at any size, otherwise at an issar.
• Rabbeinu Chananel, in Tosfos, reverses Rashi, following hilchos treifa, where a little remaining skin regrows.
• Tosfos does not say a picked esrog regrows, only that it follows hilchos treifa.
• The Gemara frames Rava's question: perhaps air reaching inside an esrog spoils liquefied flesh, unlike a lung.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rava on a peeled esrog
2. 3:24Reisha and seifa of the Mishnah
3. 5:06The beraisa on a punctured esrog
4. 10:28Simanei treifa in an esrog
5. 12:30Tosfos and Rabbeinu Chananel against Rashi
6. 16:00Questions on Tosfos and regrowing skin
7. 21:59A lung that poured like a pitcher
8. 24:40Applying the lung case to an esrog

Topics

• Esrog
• Treifa
• Niklaf
• Rashi and Tosfos