Sukkah 36b

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does Rafram bar Papa tie the size of an esrog to the stones taken into the beis hakisei on Shabbos? Rabbi Meir says a walnut and Rabbi Yehuda an egg in both places, a way to remember halachos before they were written down. In Sukkah that is the smallest esrog, and on Shabbos the largest stone. We see that for Chazal an esrog and a bathroom stone are both halacha.

Key points

• Chazal set aside muktzeh for bathroom stones on Shabbos, but never a Torah prohibition.
• Rabbi Meir's walnut is the largest stone on Shabbos but the smallest esrog.
• Rabbi Akiva carried a huge esrog on his shoulder and was told it is not hadar.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The Mishnah on esrog sizes
2. 0:55Rafram bar Papa's comparison
3. 2:00Muktzeh and carrying stones on Shabbos
4. 4:29A memory aid linking two halachos
5. 7:29Esrog and stone, both halacha
6. 8:44The largest esrog
7. 10:00Rabbi Akiva's esrog on his shoulder
8. 11:53Reviewing the Gemara inside

Topics

• Esrog
• Shiur Esrog
• Avanim Mekurzalos
• Muktzeh