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Sukkah 3:3 - 3:4

The Mishnah Yomi for Saturday, March 31, 2029 is Sukkah 3:3 - 3:4

Mishnah 1

Mishnayos Sukkah Perek 3 Mishnah 3

סוכה פרק ג׳ משנה ג׳

3
A willow branch that was stolen or is completely dry is unfit. One from a tree worshipped as idolatry [asheira] or from a city whose residents were incited to idolatry is unfit. If the top was severed, or its leaves were severed, or if it is the tzaftzafa, a species similar to, but not actually a willow, it is unfit. However, a willow branch that is slightly dried, and one that a minority of its leaves fell, and a branch from a willow that does not grow by the river, but instead is from a non-irrigated field, is fit.
עֲרָבָה גְזוּלָה וִיבֵשָׁה, פְּסוּלָה. שֶׁל אֲשֵׁרָה וְשֶׁל עִיר הַנִּדַּחַת, פְּסוּלָה. נִקְטַם רֹאשָׁהּ, נִפְרְצוּ עָלֶיהָ, וְהַצַּפְצָפָה, פְּסוּלָה. כְּמוּשָׁה, וְשֶׁנָּשְׁרוּ מִקְצָת עָלֶיהָ, וְשֶׁל בַּעַל, כְּשֵׁרָה:
ג׳

נקטם ראשה פסולה – even this is not the Halakha.

צפצפה – a kind of willow where its leaf is round,.

ושל בעל – where it grew in the field but not in a brook, it is valid. The words “willows of the brook” (Leviticus 23:40) were not said other than the fact that the Bible speaks in terms of words that are current.

נקטם ראשה פסולה. אף זו אינה הלכה:

צפצפה. מין ערבה ועלה שלה עגול:

ושל בעל. שגדלה בשדה ולא בנחל, כשרה. לא נאמר ערבי נחל אלא שדבר הכתוב בהווה:

Mishnah 2

Mishnayos Sukkah Perek 3 Mishnah 4

סוכה פרק ג׳ משנה ד׳

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Rabbi Yishmael says: The mitzva of the four species is to take three myrtle branches, and two willow branches, one lulav, and one etrog. With regard to the myrtle branches, even if the tops of two are severed and the top of one is not severed, it is fit. Rabbi Tarfon says: Even if the tops of all three are severed, it is fit. Rabbi Akiva says with regard to the number of each of the species: Just as there is one lulav and one etrog, so too there is one myrtle branch and one willow branch.
רַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל אוֹמֵר, שְׁלשָׁה הֲדַסִּים וּשְׁתֵּי עֲרָבוֹת, לוּלָב אֶחָד וְאֶתְרוֹג אֶחָד, אֲפִלּוּ שְׁנַיִם קְטוּמִים וְאֶחָד אֵינוֹ קָטוּם. רַבִּי טַרְפוֹן אוֹמֵר, אֲפִלּוּ שְׁלָשְׁתָּן קְטוּמִים. רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא אוֹמֵר, כְּשֵׁם שֶׁלּוּלָב אֶחָד וְאֶתְרוֹג אֶחָד, כָּךְ הֲדַס אֶחָד וַעֲרָבָה אֶחָת:
ד׳

אפילו שנים קטומין – it is referring to the myrtles/Hadasim and in the Talmud (Sukkah 34b) it raises the objection if they are broken on the top they are invalid, for it requires three and all of them whole, but if it is broken off, it is valid, even to validate all three of them which are broken on the top. And it finishes that Rabbi Yishmael retrated from the beginning of his words that he would require three Hadasim and validates even two which are broken off at the time. And this is the law if they did not bring them at all that they are broken off, according to the one who does not hold like this.

אפילו שלשתן קטומין – for beauty is not required for the Hadas/myrtle. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Tarfon.

אפילו שנים קטומין. אהדסים קאי. ובגמרא פריך אי קטום פסול והוא מצריך שלשה ליבעי כולהו שלמים, ואי קטום כשר ליכשר שלשתן קטומים. ומסיק דחזר בו רבי ישמעאל מתחלת דבריו שהיה מצריך שלשה הדסים ומכשיר אפילו שנים קטומין. והוא הדין אי לא מייתי להו כלל דקטומין כמאן דליתנהו דמי:

אפילו שלשתן קטומין. דלא בעי הדר בהדס. והלכה כרבי טרפון:

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