Study Sukkah folio 48A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
is a Festival in and of itself with regard to the matter of: Peh, zayin, reish; kuf, shin, beit. This is an acronym for: A lottery [payis] in and of itself, i.e., a new lottery is performed on that day to determine which priests will sacrifice the offerings that day, and the order established on S
Mishnah: This Mishnah elaborates upon the first Mishnah in this chapter. The obligation to recite hallel and the mitzva of rejoicing on the Festival by sacrificing and eating the meat of peace-offerings are always for 8 days. The Mishnah explains: How so? This teaches that a person is obligated in
Talmud: The Talmud asks: From where are these matters, that on the 8th day of the Festival one is obligated to rejoice, derived? It is as A baraita states that the verse states with regard to Sukkot: “And you shall be altogether joyful” (Deuteronomy 16:15). The verse comes to include the evenings
The Talmud asks: What did you see that led you to include the evenings of the last day of the Festival in the mitzva of rejoicing and to exclude the evenings of the 1st day of the Festival? Why not require one to sacrifice peace-offerings on the afternoon preceding the Festival to be eaten on the f
Mishnah: The mitzva of sukka is 7 days. How does one fulfill this obligation for 7 full days? When one finished eating on the 7th day, he should not dismantle his sukka immediately, because the obligation continues until the end of the day. However, he takes the vessels down from the sukka into the