Sukkah 46b Part 2/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Is the esrog muktzeh only while the mitzvah is done, or the whole seventh day, and what about the eighth day outside Eretz Yisrael? For the eighth day, Abaye keeps the esrog muktzeh as a possible seventh day, Maremar permits it, and the halacha follows Abaye. Two days of Yom Tov come from the doubt over which day bais din set as Rosh Chodesh. Questions from the room turn to tefillin on Simchas Torah, why no lulav on Shemini Atzeres, and the signal fires.

Key points

• Rav Zeira teaches not to give a child the lulav on the first day before being yotzei.
• Rav and Rav Asi's dispute over seven esrogim is the same machlokes as Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish.
• The Gemara rules like Abaye that the esrog stays muktzeh on Shemini Atzeres, a possible seventh day.
• We learn that ruling like Abaye also means following Rabbi Yochanan on the seventh day.
• Taking lulav and esrog on Shemini Atzeres would belittle the Yom Tov, unlike sitting in the sukkah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Recap of the three-way machlokes
2. 4:44Rav Zeira's two statements about children
3. 7:59Seven esrogim for seven days
4. 15:16The esrog on the eighth day
5. 17:28Why two days of Yom Tov
6. 21:29Abaye and Maremar on the eighth day
7. 27:48Questions on Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah
8. 37:34Announcing Rosh Chodesh and the signal fires

Topics

• Muktzeh
• Esrog
• Shemini Atzeres
• Yom Tov Sheni