Sukkah, Daf Mem Aleph, Part 6 Introduction Today’s section discusses the practice of holding the lulav in one’s hands all day long. It seems that these people read the verse "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day" as if it...
Sukkah, Daf Mem Aleph, Part 5 Introduction Today’s section provides scriptural support for the halakhah mandating that one must own one’s lulav. גמרא. מנא הני...
Sukkah, Daf Mem Aleph, Part Four Introduction Today’s section is from the Mishnah. Today we don t take the lulav on Shabbat. However, in the time of the Mishnah if the first day of the festival fell on Shabbat, they would take the lulav, because as we...
Sukkah, Daf Mem Aleph, Part 3 Introduction This section deals with the second of R. Yohanan b. Zakkai’s "takkanot," enactments. I explained this in yesterday’s section, but for convenience I am bringing it again here. On the second day of...
Sukkah, Daf Mem Aleph, Part Two Introduction Today’s section begins with a mishnah. My commentary on the mishnah itself is from Mishnah Yomit. Leviticus 23:40 reads, On the first day you shall take…and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God...
