Sukkah 53a Part 5/7

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How could they say they saw no sleep for the whole week of the simcha, when Rabbi Yochanan holds that three days without sleep is impossible? The Gemara answers that they never lay down in bed but dozed on each other's shoulders. The Mishnah's fifteen steps match the fifteen Shir HaMaalos, and Rabbi Yochanan's story of David digging the shitin explains why there are fifteen.

Key points

• One answer puts even tefillah, as avodah, between the two temidim, so Mincha comes before the later tamid.
• Rabbi Yochanan treats a shevua not to sleep three days as a shevuas shav, deserving malkus.
• The fifteen steps in the Beis HaMikdash match the fifteen Shir HaMaalos in Tehillim.
• Achitofel reasons that if Hashem's name is erased for shalom in a home, surely to save the world.
• The tehom sank 16,000 amos, and fifteen Shir HaMaalos raised it 15,000, leaving a thousand amos.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Juggling eight torches
2. 1:39The daily seder of the simcha
3. 3:14Mincha before the tamid
4. 5:22Three days without sleep
5. 9:03The fifteen steps and Shir HaMaalos
6. 10:59David digs the shitin
7. 16:10Erasing the Shem and Achitofel's kal vachomer
8. 23:28The tehom sinks and rises

Topics

• Shir HaMaalos
• Shitin