Succah 48a

סוכה מ״ח ע״א

Sukkah 48a

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Topic

שמיני עצרת as its own festival, שמחה on its night, ending the סוכה on the seventh day, and the start of ניסוך המים

Overview

This amud opens by finishing a list from the previous daf. The list gives six ways that שמיני עצרת is a separate festival from סוכות, summed up by the memory sign פז"ר קש"ב. Next, a משנה teaches that הלל and שמחה last all eight days. The גמרא learns from the word "אך" in "והיית אך שמח" that the night of the last יום טוב is included in שמחה, because it follows a day of rejoicing. The first night is not included, because no day of rejoicing comes before it. A second משנה teaches that the סוכה must stay up all seven days, but the כלים may be moved into the house from מנחה onward. The גמרא then asks what someone does if he has no place to move his כלים. In ארץ ישראל he makes the סוכה invalid. In חוץ לארץ he lights a lamp in a small סוכה, or brings the cooking pots into a large one. Finally, a new משנה begins describing ניסוך המים: a golden jug filled from the שילוח, the שופר blasts at the שער המים, and the two basins on the מזבח. That description continues on the next amud.

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The steps (23)

1. StatementSix ways שמיני עצרת is its own festival
2. StatementThe משנה: הלל and rejoicing all eight days
3. QuestionWhere do we learn this from?
4. ResponseThe verse 'והיית אך שמח' includes the last night
5. ChallengeMaybe the verse means the first night instead
6. ResolutionThe word 'אך' divides
7. QuestionWhy include the last night and not the first?
8. ResponseThe last night follows a day of rejoicing
9. StatementThe סוכה lasts all seven days, but the כלים come down from מנחה
10. QuestionWhat if he has no כלים to take down
11. ChallengeEveryone used some כלים in the סוכה
12. QuestionThe real question: he has no place to put his כלים
13. Responseרבי חייא בר רב: make a four-טפחים gap in the סכך
14. Responseרבי יהושע בן לוי: light a lamp in the סוכה
15. ResolutionNo disagreement: one answer is for חוץ לארץ, one for ארץ ישראל
16. ChallengeA lamp works for a small סוכה, but what about a large one
17. ResolutionIn a large סוכה, bring the cooking pots inside
18. Proofרבא: pots stay outside the סוכה, drinking cups stay inside
19. StatementHow the water libation was done: filling the golden jug
20. Statementשופר blasts at the שער המים
21. StatementGoing up the ramp to the two silver basins
22. Statementרבי יהודה: the basins were limestone, darkened by wine
23. StatementThe basins had holes in them