Sukkah 46a Part 5/6

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Where does the shehechiyanu on a sukkah belong, at the building or at the first sitting? The beraisa allows it at the building, yet Rav Kahana held all the brachos for Kiddush, as we do today. Rabbi Yehuda's separate bracha for each mitzvah, drawn from Baruch Hashem yom yom, opens a suggested pshat about thanking Hashem in detail at Moadim. Rav Zeira teaches that Hashem's vessel holds only when full, so the more one listens and chazers, the more one hears.

Key points

• For last year's sukkah, the beraisa ties the bracha to adding something, or else to entering.
• Rav Ashi saw Rav Kahana say all the brachos over the Kiddush cup.
• At Kiddush the shehechiyanu of the Yom Tov joins the shehechiyanu of the mitzvah of sukkah.
• We pasken like Rabbi Yehuda, who gives each mitzvah its own bracha rather than one al hamitzvos.
• Perhaps the Gemara hints at thanking Hashem for each kindness separately, as Moadim does.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Beraisa on shehechiyanu for a sukkah
2. 3:22Rav Kahana's brachos at Kiddush
3. 5:08Two kinds of shehechiyanu
4. 6:01Order of brachos on the second night
5. 8:51One bracha for many mitzvos
6. 10:57Baruch Hashem yom yom and Rashi
7. 13:57A suggested pshat from Moadim
8. 20:06Rav Zeira on the full vessel

Topics

• Shehechiyanu
• Leishev BaSukkah
• Birchos HaMitzvos
• Chazara