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Laws of Hakhel
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MISHNA:
How
is
the portion of
the Torah that is read by
the king
recited at the assembly, when all the Jewish people would assemble? At
the conclusion of the first day of the festival
of
Sukkot
,
on the eighth,
after
the conclusion of the Sabbatical Year, they make a wooden platform for
the king
in the
Temple
courtyard, and he sits on it, as it is stated: “At the end of every seven years, in the Festival
of the Sabbatical Year” (Deuteronomy 31:10).
Sotah 41a:15
And these are recited
only
in the sacred tongue,
Hebrew:
The recitation of
the verses that one recounts when bringing the
first fruits
to the Temple;
and
the recitations which form an element of
the ritual through which a
yavam
frees a
yevama
of her levirate bonds [
ḥalitza
];
the
blessings and curses
that were spoken on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal;
the Priestly Benediction; and the blessing
on the Torah recited
by
the
High Priest
on Yom Kippur…
Sotah 32a:6
It is a positive commandment to gather together the entire Jewish people - men, women, and children - after every Sabbatical year when they ascend for the pilgrimage holiday and to read so that they hear passages from the Torah that encourage them to perfom mitzvot and strengthem them in the true faith, as Deuteronomy 31:10-12 states: "At the end of a seven-year period, at the time of the Sabbatial year on the Sukkot holiday when all Israel come to appear... gather the nation, the men, the women, the children, and your stranger in your gates...."…
Mishneh Torah, Festival Offering 3
§ We learned in the mishna:
However,
with regard to
the time
when families of
priests
donate
wood
for the fire on the altar, the fast of
the Ninth of Av, the Festival
peace-offering,
and the
commandment of
assembly [
hakhel
], one postpones
their observance until after Shabbat
and does not advance
their observance to before Shabbat. The Gemara explains the reason for this
halakha
with respect to each item mentioned in the mishna…
Megillah 5a:12
King Agrippa arose, and received
the Torah scroll,
and read
from it while
standing, and the Sages praised him
for this.
And when
Agrippa
arrived at
the verse in the portion read by the king that states:
“You may not appoint a foreigner over you”
(Deuteronomy 17:15),
tears flowed from his eyes,
because he was a descendant of the house of Herod and was not of Jewish origin. The entire nation
said to him: Fear not, Agrippa. You are our brother, you are our brother.
…
Sotah 41a:17-41b:3
The Gemara explains:
With regard to
their exemption from the obligation of
appearance,
the
tanna
derives
this
halakha
by means of a verbal analogy between the term
appearance
stated with regard to the mitzva of appearance at the Temple on the pilgrim Festival and the term
appearance
stated with regard to the mitzva
of assembly,
i.e., the obligation to assemble in the Temple on
Sukkot
in the year following the Sabbatical Year.
As it is written,
with regard to the mitzva of assembly:
“Assemble the people…
Chagigah 3a:2
The Gemara answers: This statement
was necessary,
as otherwise
it could enter your mind to say: Let us derive
by means of a verbal analogy between the term:
Appearance,
which appears here, and the term:
Appearance,
stated
with
regard to the mitzva of
assembly
(Deuteronomy 31:11), which is also a positive, time-bound mitzva.
Just as there, women are obligated
in the mitzva of assembly,
so too here, women are obligated
in the mitzva of appearance on the Festival. Therefore, the
baraita
teaches us
that women are exempt.
Chagigah 4a:5
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memories be blessed, said (Sotah 41a, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Festival Offering 3:3) that the king was the one that was obligated to read it in their ears. And he would read it in the women’s yard [of the Temple]. And he reads while sitting, but if he read while standing, behold that is praiseworthy. And from where does he read? From the beginning of the book of
Eleh HaDevarim
(Deuteronomy) until the end of the section of
Shema Yisrael
(Deuteronomy 6:9)…
Sefer HaChinukh 612:3-4
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