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THE DAFYOMI DISCUSSION LIST brought to you by Kollel Iyun Hadaf of Yerushalayim Rosh Kollel Rabbi Mordecai Kornfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE TO DISCUSS THE DAF WITH THE KOLLEL] ________________________________________________________________ Shabbos 131b: Kal va'Chomer to eat Matzah on Sukos Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >>Why don;t we make a kal vechomer that surely pesach where you have to eat >>matzah and u don't sit in a sukkah, yet you have to eat matzah...surely >>sukkos where u have to sit in a sukkah u should have to eat matzah!?!?! << To which the kollel replied: >>Actually, the Gemara links Sukos to Pesach with a Gezeirah Shavah >>(Shabbos 131b). If so, even a Pircha should not stop us from applying the >>laws of Pesach to Sukos. Why then is there no Mitzvah of Matzah on Sukos >>(or sitting in a Sukah on Pesach)? Apparently the implication of the very >>verses that teach the Mitzvos of Matzah and Sukah is that these Mitzvos >>apply *only* seven days of the year, and no more (see Shemos 12:15; >>Vayikra 23:42 etc.).<< Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> comments: it happens to be it is the toras kananim's question and he gives a drasha for it. levi, brooklyn ny ---------------------------------------------- The Kollel replies: Thank you, Levi, for pointing out the Toras Kohanim (Emor, Perek 11:2; 12:2) which indeed learns that we don't eat Matzah on Sukos from the implication of the verses ("Chamishah Asar l'Chodesh ha*Zeh* Chag ha'Matzos..." -- and the same for Chag ha'Sukos). I'm proud to be have been Mechaven to the words of the Midrash. Of course, when the Midrash tries to learn from a "Kal v'Chomer" that the Matzah and Sukah should apply to both holidays, it must really be relying on the Gezeirah Shavah that I mentioned, since there are Pirchos on the Kal v'Chomer, as we wrote in our last correspondence. M. Kornfeld To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in the body of the message: unsubscribe daf-discuss