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Sukkah 12a
Mar-Cheshvan 2, 5781. October 21, 2020
1- We began the Sugya of the type of material the סכך needs to be.
2- The reason we sit in a Sukkah.
לְמַעַן יֵדְעוּ דֹרֹתֵיכֶם כִּי בַסֻּכּוֹת הוֹשַׁבְתִּי אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּהוֹצִיאִי אוֹתָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם אֲנִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם.
On a general topic, our Gemara introduces 2 opinions as to which Sukka the פסוק is referring to. Rebbi Eliezer says we commemorate the miraculous clouds. Rebbi Akiva says it was physical סוכות.
3- We spoke about these clouds and whether they were also shielding the sides of מחנה ישראל. If yes, it would mean that they were proper מחיצות and thus would result in the entire מחנה ישראל as a רשות היחיד!
But we know that מחנה ישראל was considered a רשות הרבים due to its wide plazas and 600,000 present. Noda BiYehuda 13 דורש לציון.
[In passing we spoke about the Eiruv in front of 770 this past Tishrei. A full enclosure was built with doors at each entrance. Although the Halacha is that they do not need to be closed at night, the Alter Rebbe (364, 2) writes ויש להחמיר that they should actually be closed].
4- The story of בני ישראל retreating י”ב מיל at each of the Aseres Hadibros. The question about traveling beyond the תחום שבת. Unless it was a רשות היחיד as above.
5- תורת חסד OC 35. Speaks about the two גרסאות in the above Machlokes. In other places Rebbi Eliezer and Rebbi Akiva are switched.
The מהר”ץ חיות proves the גרסא as we have in our Gemore as the correct one.
We see that the Targum translates כִּי בַסֻּכּוֹת הוֹשַׁבְתִּי אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל as ‘clouds’. He follows the opinion of Rebbi Eliezer. The Targum Onkelos was a student of Rebbi Eliezer: –
וכאן תרגם אונקלוס ענני הכבוד, כפי דעת ר’ אליעזר בבבלי
וא”ר ירמיה ואיתימא רבי חייא בר אבא תרגום של תורה אונקלוס הגר אמרו מפי ר’ אליעזר ור’ יהושע
6- The famous ב”ח. Being aware of the reason we sit in the Sukkah is part of the Mitzvah since the פסוק itself states למען ידעו. Unlike most other מצוות that just being aware of what one is doing is sufficient.
See Alter Rebbe here. 625.
7- We discussed Reb Yimiya’s suggestion that סכך should be made with grape residue.
R Dovid Okunov HY”D
8- Yartzeit of Reb Dovid Okinov. See here.
Story of Jan Peerce.
Here with the Rebbe
מבי״ט. הכרחי.
פני יהושע חנוכה.
גידולי הארץ גידולי מן הארץ.
טור. ב״ח.
גרסאות. תורת חסד או״ח לה.
לקו״ש לג ע׳ 101.