📜 Daily Chumash & Rashi Emor Shishi: Sukkos-Karbanos and Melacha

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Shishi

  • Sukkos-Karbanos and Melacha: On the 15th day of the seventh month is the seven-day Sukkos Holiday. One may not perform laborious work on the 1st or 8th You are to bring an offering for seven days. On the eighth day, it is to be a call of Holiness for you and you shall bring an offering to Hashem. It is an Atzeres, all laborious activity may not be performed. These are the Holidays of Hashem which are to be called a calling of holiness to bring sacrifices to Hashem, Mincha, and Nesachim, each day’s requirement on its day. This is aside for the Shabbasos of Hashem, and one’s voluntary offerings which are given to Hashem. On the 15th day, which is when you gather the grain, you are to celebrate the festival for seven days, on the first day you shall rest and on the eight day you shall rest.
  • Daled Minim: You shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkos] a beautiful fruit [i.e. Esrog], the date palm branch [i.e. Lulav], branches of a cordlike tree [i.e. Hadas] and willows of a river [i.e. Aravos] and rejoice before Hashem your G-d for seven days. You are to celebrate the festival for Hashem seven days a year for all generation, during the seventh month.
  • Sukkah dwelling: One is to dwell in the Sukkah for seven days. Every native of Israel is to dwell in the Sukkah so that all your generations will know that I caused the Jewish people to dwell in Sukkos when I took them out of Egypt.
  • Moshe told the Jewish people of all the Holidays of Hashem.

📘 Rashi Q&A — Vayikra 23:33–44

 

23:35 — Holy Occasion

Q1. What does “מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ” mean?

A:

  • On Yom Kippur: sanctify the day with fine clothing and appropriate prayer.
  • On other festivals: sanctify with good food and drink, fine clothing, and appropriate prayer.

 

23:36 — Eighth Day (Shemini Atzeret)

Q2. What does “עֲצֶרֶת הִוא” mean?

A: God says: “I have detained (עָצַרְתִּי) you with Me one more day.”
This is likened to a king who asks his children to stay longer because their departure is painful to him.

 

Q3. What does “כָּל־מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה” include?

A: Even essential work whose omission would cause monetary loss.

 

Q4. Why does Scripture say “לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ”?

A: To limit the prohibition to this day itself, but not to Chol HaMo’ed, as indicated by the word הִוא (“it”).

 

23:37 — Daily Offerings

Q5. What does “עֹלָה וּמִנְחָה” refer to?

A: The ascent‑offering together with its grain‑offering, which includes libations.

 

Q6. What does “דְּבַר־יוֹם בְּיוֹמוֹ” teach?

A:

  • Each day has a fixed amount of offerings as stated in the Book of Numbers.
  • If the day passes, its offering cannot be made up later.

 

23:38 — What Is Excluded

Q7. What is excluded by “מִלְּבַד שַׁבְּתֹת ה‘”?

A: These festival offerings are in addition to:

  • God’s Sabbaths
  • Personal gifts
  • Vows
  • Dedications

 

23:39 — Festival Peace‑Offering

Q8. What does “אַךְ בַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר יוֹם” imply?

A: The word אַךְ (“only”) limits the rule, teaching that the festival peace‑offering (חֲגִיגָה) does not override Shabbat, since it can be brought later.

 

Q9. What does “בְּאָסְפְּכֶם אֶת־תְּבוּאַת הָאָרֶץ” teach?

A: The seventh month must fall during the season of ingathering, requiring intercalation of the year when necessary.

 

Q10. What does “שִׁבְעַת יָמִים” teach here?

A:

  • The offering need not be brought each day.
  • It may be made up on any of the seven days if missed.
    This is derived by limiting the obligation to one day, with the remainder serving as make‑up days.

 

23:40 — The Four Species

Q11. What is “פְּרִי עֵץ הָדָר”?

A: The citron (etrog) — a fruit whose tree’s bark and fruit share the same taste, or a fruit that dwells on its tree from one year to the next.

 

Q12. What does “כַּפֹּת תְּמָרִים” mean?

A: A single date‑palm frond, since כַּפֹּת is written without a ו.

 

Q13. What is “עֲנַף עֵץ עָבֹת”?

A: A myrtle branch, whose overlapping leaves make it appear braided like cords.

 

23:41 — Eternal Festival

Q14. What is emphasized by “חֻקַּת עוֹלָם”?

A: The obligation to celebrate Sukkot applies eternally throughout all generations.

 

23:42 — Who Dwells in Sukkot

Q15. Who is included in “הָאֶזְרָח”?

A: A native Israelite.

 

Q16. What does “בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל” add?

A: It includes converts.

 

23:43 — Purpose of Sukkot

Q17. What does “כִּי בַסֻּכּוֹת הוֹשַׁבְתִּי” mean?

A: It refers not to physical huts, but to the Clouds of Glory that surrounded Israel when God took them out of Egypt.

 

23:44 — Moshe’s Role

Q18. What does verse 44 summarize?

A: That Moses transmitted the laws of God’s festivals to Israel.

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