Sukkah 51b Part 4/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How could the Chachamim build permanent beams into the walls of the Beis HaMikdash for the tikkun gadol? The Gemara answers from a pasuk in Zechariah: men and women stand apart even at the hesped for Moshiach ben Yosef, so all the more at the simcha, where the yetzer hara still rules. This Gemara is the source of mechitza. Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Satmar Rebbe dispute what its main purpose is.

Key points

• Alexandros read the tochacha's swooping eagle as himself, since he arrived in five days instead of ten.
• Going back to Mitzrayim alone seems no cause for death, so perhaps more was involved.
• The Gemara asks how beams could be added to a Beis HaMikdash whose plan came from Hashem.
• From Zechariah's hesped for Moshiach ben Yosef, the Gemara learns a kal vachomer for separation at the simcha.
• Rav Moshe Feinstein sees the mechitza as preventing mingling, while the Satmar Rebbe stresses not seeing.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Alexandros and the Jews of Alexandria
2. 5:29The Mishnah's tikkun gadol
3. 7:11Planks on the walls of the Ezras Nashim
4. 10:51Adding to the Beis HaMikdash
5. 13:40The hesped for Moshiach ben Yosef
6. 23:27Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Satmar Rebbe
7. 26:43Mechitza for Shabbos versus mechitza in shul
8. 28:59Stronger yetzer hara in our times

Topics

• Mechitza
• Moshiach ben Yosef
• Beis HaMikdash