Sukkah 51b Part 5/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How could beams be set into the walls of the Beis HaMikdash for a women's balcony, when its plan came from Hashem? The Gemara finds a hint in a pasuk about a future hesped where men and women sit apart. If that hesped is for the yetzer hara, the Gemara has it look like a mountain to tzaddikim, and it grows like a muscle each time they overcome it. Rashi in Zechariah has Hashem wondering with the tzaddikim, and Hashem understands the struggle nobody else sees.

Key points

• Adding beams for the balcony seemed to alter the Beis HaMikdash plan that came from Hashem.
• If the pasuk separates men and women even at a hesped, all the more so at a simcha.
• The Gemara has the yetzer hara look like a mountain to tzaddikim and a hair to reshaim.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Beams for the women's balcony
2. 1:44Changing the Beis HaMikdash blueprint
3. 3:13The pasuk of the future hesped
4. 5:44Moshiach ben Yosef or the yetzer hara
5. 9:17Why cry over the yetzer hara
6. 10:27A mountain for tzaddikim, a hair for reshaim
7. 12:13The yetzer hara as a muscle
8. 13:14Rashi on Hashem wondering with tzaddikim

Topics

• Simchas Beis HaShoeva
• Ezras Nashim
• Yetzer Hara
• Moshiach ben Yosef