Sukkah 48a Part 1/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Gemara read v'hayisa ach sameach as including the night of Shemini Atzeres rather than the first night of Yom Tov? The Gemara includes the last night because simcha comes before it, and Rashi adds that the day is surely included too. The Vilna Gaon reads ach as a miut that takes away sukkah and lulav and leaves only simcha. That reading works only after days already full of mitzvos.

Key points

• Rashi reasons that if the night of Shemini Atzeres has simcha, the day surely does.
• Rashi notes the korban is brought on Yom Tov, so first-night meat needs one brought before.
• In the time of the Beis HaMikdash, simcha came only through basar shelamim, learned from a pasuk.
• A note on the Shulchan Aruch puts first-night simcha as only d'Rabbanan, not d'Oraisa.
• The Vilna Gaon reads ach as excluding sukkah and lulav on Shemini Atzeres, leaving only simcha.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Including the night of Shemini Atzeres
2. 1:33Perhaps the first night instead
3. 2:38Rashi on bringing the korban
4. 4:12Ach as a division between nights
5. 7:21Simcha through basar shelamim
6. 11:43Simcha on the first night of Yom Tov
7. 13:43The Vilna Gaon on ach
8. 20:32Reading the Mishnah and Gemara again

Topics

• Simchas Yom Tov
• Shemini Atzeres
• Basar Shelamim