1)

What is the significance of the fact that the bulls on Sukos diminish each day?

1.

Rashi #1 (in Pasuk 18) and Targum Yonasan: They add up to seventy, 1 corresponding to the seventy nations, and serve as a hint that they will diminish slowly but surely. 2

2.

Rashi (in Pasuk 36), citing Midrash Tanchuma): This teaches us Derech Eretz ? That on the first day one serves one's guest juicy fowl, on the second day, fish, then meat, then legumes and finally vegetables. 3

1

Thirteen through to seven.

2

Rashi: In the era of the Beis-Hamikdash however, the bulls protected them against suffering.

3

Rashi: Decreasing the quality of food as the days go by, like the decreasing bulls on Sukos.

2)

What is the significance of the fourteen lambs that were brought on each day of Sukos?

1.

Rashi (on Pasuk 18) and Targum Yonasan: (They correspond to Yisrael, who are called 'a scattered lamb" 1 - Rashi). And they totalled ninety-eight, 2 to counter the ninety-eight curses listed in Ki Savo).

1

In Yirmiyah, 50:17 - "Seh Fezurah Yisrael".

2

Seven times fourteen.

3)

How did the twenty-four groups of Kohanim that served in the Beis-Hamikdash on Yom-Tov distribute the Avodas ha'Korbanos on Sukos?

1.

Targum Yonasan and Sukah 55b: Thirteen groups brought one bull each, two brought one ram each, one brought the goat, eight brought one lamb each, and six of those who brought bulls also brought a lamb. 1

1

All of which was decided by a lottery. And on each successive day, one less group brought a bull, until, on the seventh day, each group brought one animal. See Targum Yonasan on each day.

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