Sukkah 46b Part 3/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What does Rav mean when he calls Shemini Atzeres, out of doubt, the seventh day for the sukkah? In the Gemara's first version, everyone sits in the sukkah and the machlokes is only about the bracha leishev basukkah. The second version rules out the bracha and asks whether to sit at all. Rabbi Yochanan always keeps the least of Hoshana Rabbah on Shemini Atzeres, and the Gemara settles on sitting without a bracha.

Key points

• In the Gemara's first version, everyone sits, and Rav and Rabbi Yochanan argue only over leishev basukkah.
• In the second version nobody makes the bracha, and Rabbi Yochanan holds one does not even sit.
• Rav Yosef follows Rabbi Yochanan, because Rav Yehuda quoted Rav but sat outside the sukkah himself.
• The Gemara's halacha is to sit in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeres without making a bracha.
• Shaking a lulav could only be for the mitzvah, so it would be a zilzul of Shemini Atzeres.

In this shiur

1. 0:00What shvi'i l'sukkah means
2. 1:21The Gemara's clarification: leishev basukkah
3. 3:39Rav Yosef and the Amoraim in the sukkah
4. 5:54The second version of the machlokes
5. 12:55Rav Yehuda sitting outside the sukkah
6. 15:46Putting the halacha together
7. 22:57Why sit but not shake lulav
8. 24:11Sleeping and eating in the sukkah

Topics

• Shemini Atzeres
• Leishev BaSukkah
• Sukkah
• Hoshana Rabbah