תלמוד על סוכה 3:21

HALAKHAH: “On the same day, Rebbi Aqiba explained: “Then would Moses sing,” etc. ¹²⁹Tosephta Soṭah 6:2–4; Babli 30b/31a. A small part of the text is in Mekhilta dR. Ismael, Shirah, Parashah1 (Mekhilta dR. Simeon bar Ioḥai, p. 72, cf. Note 137). Like a minor who recites the Hallel in school and all repeat every word after him¹³⁰The entire class, until they know Hallel by heart.. Moses said, “I shall sing¹³¹Ex. 15:1.”, and they repeat after him: “I shall sing”. Moses said: “Strength”, and they say: “Strength¹³²Ex. 15:2.”. Rebbi Eliezer the son of Rebbi Yose the Galilean said, like an adult who recites the Hallel in the synagogue, and they repeat the first word¹³³This is prescribed by the Babli, Sukkah 38b, and retained in the Yemenite balādī rite, where the congregation answer hallelujah (the first word of Ps. 113) at each caesura and end of sentence. The Galilean Amoraic way was for several people to recite the Hallel, with each of them saying half a verse (Berakhot 8:9 fol. 12c, Megillah 1:11 fol. 72a).. Moses said, “I shall sing”, and they repeat: “I shall sing”. Moses said: “My strength”, and they repeat after him: “I shall sing”. Rebbi Yose the Galilean says, when our forefathers were in the sea, the toddler was resting on his mother’s knees and the baby was suckling from his mother’s breast; but when they saw the Divine Glory, the toddler lifted his head from his mother’s knees and the baby took away his mouth from his mother’s breast; they opened their mouths in song and praise and said, “that is my God and I shall declare Him Beautiful¹³²Ex. 15:2.”. Rebbi Meïr said, even the fetuses were saying a song from their mothers’ wombs, as it is said: “¹³⁴Ps. 68:27. In Mishnaic Hebrew, מָקוֹר means the female womb; cf. Lev. 20:18. In choirs praise God, the Eternal from the source of Israel.” Rebbi Nehemiah said, when our forefathers rose from the sea they saw the corpses of the sinners who had subjected them to hard, forced labor, all of them dead corpses thrown on the sea shore. They wanted to sing and the holy spirit rested upon them. Even the most insignificant in Israel sang the song just as Moses did. That is what is written: “¹³⁵Is. 63:11. The verse ends: “Where is He Who put His Holy Spirit in their midst.” He remembered the days of old, Moses, his people; where is He Who raised them from the sea?” It is not written “the sheeps’ shepherd” but “His sheeps’ shepherd”; this teaches that He turned all of them into shepherds¹³⁶Since the first half of the verse equates Moses and His people, the singular of the second clause is taken as collective..