Sukkah 56b

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why did Chazal penalize the whole mishmar of Bilga? The beraisa gives two views: Miriam bas Bilga kicked the mizbeach and called it Lukas, or the mishmar came late. Abaye answers that a child repeats what was heard from father or mother, and the whole mishmar suffers as the neighbor of a rasha. The masechta ends on the good of being next to a tzaddik.

Key points

• One explanation reads Lukas, Greek for wolf, as the mizbeach always eating up the sheep.
• The Gemara places the mizbeach in Binyamin's portion, and Binyamin is compared to a wolf.
• Bilga always takes its share on the south, so its neighbor Yeshevav always gains the north.
• Abaye teaches that a child's speech in the marketplace comes from father or mother.
• Complaining about a child's Rebbe at home teaches the child to speak the same way.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rashi on Miriam bas Bilga
2. 2:12Lukas, Lukas at the mizbeach
3. 6:43Mishmar Bilga came late
4. 8:25Bilga's neighbors gain
5. 11:33Penalizing the father for the daughter
6. 13:37Speaking about a Rebbe at home
7. 15:09Penalizing the entire mishmar
8. 18:13Rashi on the neighbor's brick

Topics

• Mishmar Bilga
• Mizbeach