Sukkah 48a Part 3/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How does someone who needs his sukkah on Shemini Atzeres keep it from looking like baal tosif? The Gemara gives two fixes, removing four tefachim of schach or bringing in a ner, and says they do not argue, one is for Eretz Yisrael and one for Bavel. In Eretz Yisrael the sukkah is made pasul on Hoshana Rabbah. In Bavel, on an explanation added beyond Rashi, the ner comes in on Shemini Atzeres for a Simchas Torah meal.

Key points

• The Mishnah leaves the sukkah standing after the meal, with keilim taken down from mincha onward.
• One Amora's fix for the look of baal tosif is removing four tefachim of schach.
• A second Amora has a ner brought in instead, which Rashi says pasuls a small sukkah.
• On one explanation built on Rashi, the ner in Bavel prepares for a Simchas Torah meal.
• For a large sukkah the Gemara has food pots brought in, since Rava keeps them outside.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mishnah: Sukkah shiva keitzad
2. 2:40Gemara: no room to move keilim
3. 3:59The look of baal tosif
4. 6:49A second fix: bringing in a ner
5. 7:14Living in the sukkah like at home
6. 11:06Halan v'hlahu: Bavel and Eretz Yisrael
7. 17:28Small sukkah, large sukkah, pots of food
8. 20:07Reviewing from Mishnah to Mishnah

Topics

• Baal Tosif
• Shemini Atzeres
• Hoshana Rabbah
• Sukkah