דַּבֵּ֛ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֜ר י֗וֹם לַחֹ֤דֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי֙ הַזֶּ֔ה חַ֧ג הַסֻּכּ֛וֹת שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים לַיהֹוָֽה׃
Berbicaralah kepada bani Israel, katakanlah: Pada tanggal lima belas bulan ketujuh ini adalah Hari Raya Pondok Daun bagi Yang Mahakekal, tujuh hari lamanya.
Jerusalem Talmud Megillah
HALAKHAH: “On Pentecost, seven weeks.” There are Tannaim who state, in the third month117Ex. Chapters 19–20. While Pharisaic and Sadducee traditions differ about the date of Pentecost, both are in agreement that the holiday celebrates the anniversary of the theophany of Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments, the theme of these Chapters. Tosephta 3:5. “And on New Year’s Day, and in the Seventh month118In this version the reading is Num. 29:1–5..” There are Tannaim who state, and the Eternal counted Sarah119Gen. Chapter 21. The reading is appropriate because v. 21:17 states that a person is judged only by his state at the moment of judgment; if he is repentant then his prior misdeeds are disregarded; a proper reading for the Day of Judgment. Tosephta 3:6 For the Babylonian rite, Babli 31a.. “On the Day of Atonement, after the death. On the first day of Tabernacles one reads the section about holidays in Leviticus; on the remaining days about the sacrifices of the holiday.” Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa in the name of Rebbi Yasa, to teach you that the world only exists by the sacrifices.
Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah
HALAKHAH: What is Rebbi Eliezer’s reason? It says here79Lev. 23:42., you shall sit, and it says there80Lev. 8:35, misquoted., at the door of the Tent of Meeting they shall sit day and night. Since for the sitting mentioned there He made nights like days81“Day and night” is interpreted as “some time during the day and some time during the night” (Yoma 1:1, Note 81); the same applies here., so also for the sitting mentioned here we shall make nights like days. Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Ismael82In the Babli 27a: in the name of R. Simeon ben Yoṣadaq (R. Joḥanan’s teacher); in the Munich ms. of the Babli R. Ṣadoq.: It is said fifteenth for Passover and it is said fifteenth for Tabernacles. Since for fifteenth said for Passover the first night is obligatory and the remaining days are optional83This is an application of one of R. Ismael’s hermeneutical rules. It is written (Ex. 13:6) seven days you shall eat mazzot, and (Deut. 16:8) six days you shall eat mazzot. R. Ismael’s rule reads: Anything that was in a set and was taken out from the set implies the same for the whole set.” Since the last mentioned verse implies that on the seventh day one need not eat unleavened bread (one may not eat leavened bread, however), the same is true for all seven days of Passover with the only exception of the first night of which it is said explicitly (Ex. 12:18): In the evening you shall eat mazzot., so also for fifteenth said for Tabernacles the first night is obligatory and the remaining days are optional. The colleagues asked, since there only that one comes to eat mazzah with an appetite84Mishnah Pesaḥim10:1: “On Passover eve, starting close to afternoon prayers, a person may not eat until nightfall” (so he shall eat the first mazzah with a good appetite.) There is no similar rule spelled out for Tabernacles; R. Joḥanan’s argument is homiletic but cannot be legal., so also here only they come to eat in the sukkah with appetite? Rebbi Ze`ira asked: Since there only one has to eat mazzah in the volume of an olive85The biblical obligation contained in Ex. 12:18 can only be fulfilled by eating a mazzah in an amount that triggers a biblical obligation to say Grace. But for the sukkah, sitting is prescribed but not eating; the same standards cannot apply., so also here only one has to eat grain [in the sukkah] in the volume of an olive? Rebbi Hoshaia said, the sukkah is obligatory all seven days. Rebbi Berekhiah said, they86R. Joḥanan, who requires a meal only the first night, and R. Hoshaia, who requires it for 7 days. disagree. Rebbi Abuna said, they do not disagree. What Rebbi Joḥanan said, if he put his mind to it; what Rebbi Hoshaia said, if he did not put his mind to it87R. Hoshaia really does not require to eat in the sukkah for 7 days; he is more lenient than R. Joḥanan and requires that once one must come to the sukkah to recite the appropriate benedictions (Halakhah 1:1, Notes 123–126) but this does not necessarily be the first night..