Sukkah 53b Part 3/5

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Is tekiah, truah, tekiah on the chatzotzros one mitzvah or three? Rabbi Yehuda counts it as one, so his seven to sixteen blasts match the Mishnah's twenty-one to forty-eight, which follows the Rabbanan. Rav Kahana says there should be no break between tekiah and truah, and Rashi allows only a breath. The Gemara concludes that Rav Kahana follows Rabbi Yehuda.

Key points

• The Mishnah counts each tekiah, truah, tekiah as three mitzvos, and Rabbi Yehuda counts it as one.
• Rabbi Yehuda learns it is one mitzvah from the extra words truah yitku in the pasuk.
• The Rabbanan argue the Torah would not command half a mitzvah, a tekiah without a truah, for gathering.
• Rabbi Yehuda calls the gathering blast only a siman, and the Rabbanan answer that the Torah made the siman a mitzvah.
• Rav Kahana's stress on no break of any kind shows, says the Gemara, that he follows Rabbi Yehuda.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Counting the blasts, twenty-one to forty-eight
2. 2:17Rabbi Yehuda's source in the pasuk
3. 4:52Rabbanan on a pshuta before and after
4. 9:25Gathering with a tekiah alone
5. 13:28Rabbi Yehuda's answer of a siman
6. 16:14Rav Kahana on a break
7. 20:03Rabbi Yochanan's nine blasts in nine hours
8. 23:44Why Rav Kahana stresses no break

Topics

• Chatzotzros
• Tekios