Sukkah 45b Part 1/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Are the bnei aliyah, the elevated people, really so few? How that fits with anivus is left open to think about. The Gemara squares the small number with Rava's 18,000 and Abaye's 36 through degrees of closeness to the Shechina. Then the Gemara keeps the Mishnah's praise of the mizbeach from becoming shittuf, and the next Mishnah brings palm shoots in place of aravos.

Key points

• Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says that if only two bnei aliyah exist, they are himself and his son.
• Rava's 18,000 see Hashem, but only the few see through an aspaklaria hame'ira, a clear glass.
• Following Rashi, Abaye's 36 tzaddikim enter with permission, while the few enter without permission.
• The Gemara rereads the mizbeach praise: moadim, acknowledging Hashem, and separate praise to the mizbeach.
• In the Gemara's sevara, as the tamar has one heart, Yisrael have one heart for Hashem.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai exempting the world
2. 2:23Bnei aliyah and how few they are
3. 3:22Rava's 18,000 rows
4. 7:33Abaye and the 36 tzaddikim
5. 11:23Bar read as son
6. 12:40The Mishnah's praise of the mizbeach
7. 17:41Moadim as acknowledgment, not thanks
8. 23:59Aravos on Shabbos and palm shoots

Topics

• Bnei Aliyah
• Lamed Vav Tzaddikim
• Shittuf
• Arava