10.3 - Sukkah Daf 12 A (4 lines Dn)

Today’s learning sponsored by KACH MAGI’IM (See ad below) Sponsor a day's learning (thousands of minutes!) for only $72 click here https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/ODUwOTU The source for the laws that schach may only be made of something that is not mekabel tumah and grows from the ground is from the possuk “Make yourself a chag of sukkos when you gather in from your grain pile and from your winepress”. Those twigs and straw grow from the ground and are not mekabel tumah. Challenge: Perhaps the possuk refers not to the straw and twigs but to the grain and wine which are mekabel tumah. Resolution: Wine cannot be used for schach. Summary Rabbi Yirmiyah: The wine from Mount Snir is dried like cakes of pressed figs; it can be used for schach? Rabbi Zeira: We thought we had this matter sorted out until Rabbi Yirmiyah came along and threw a monkey wrench into it. Rav Ashi: The possuk says “when you gather in from your grain pile and from your winepress”. The possuk is not referring to the actual grain or wine but to what comes off of them – the straw or twigs. Rav Chisda: (Rav Chisda has an open possuk, only it’s not in Chumash, it is in Sefer Nechemiah) The possuk states: “Go out to the mountain and bring leaves of olive trees, oil trees, myrtle, date palms and leaves of eitz avos” [all of these things grow from the ground and are not mekabel tumah]. Question: Eitz avos refers to myrtle branches? (In the possuk about the arba minim, the myrtle branches are called eitz avos, because they’re braided). Rav Chisda: The possuk is saying they should take unbraided myrtle branches for schach and the braided branches for the arba minim. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate