Questions tagged [masechet-sukkah]
Tractate in Seder Moed. Discusses the laws of building Tabernacles and of the four species.
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Onen eating outside sukkah
Is an onen exempt from eating in the sukkah on sukkot? Are they allowed to eat outside the sukkah (sources much appreciated please).
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Why is Beis Hillel before Beis Shammai in Mishna Sukkah?
Based on the Gemara Eruvin (13b) that says
מִפְּנֵי
מָה זָכוּ בֵּית הִלֵּל לִקְבּוֹעַ הֲלָכָה כְּמוֹתָן? מִפְּנֵי
שֶׁנּוֹחִין וַעֲלוּבִין הָיוּ, וְשׁוֹנִין דִּבְרֵיהֶן וְדִבְרֵי בֵּית
שַׁמַּאי, וְלֹא ...
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Can a geodesic dome with a large flat open space on top be used as a kosher sukkah?
I have a friend who proposed the idea of building a geodesic dome sukkah this year - but with a flat open space atop the dome so that the schach can lay flat atop the sukkah. we are intending this ...
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Why is there no transition from Rebbi Yehuda’s Baraisa of Queen Helene’s sukkah to Rav Shmuel bar Yitzchak stating the halacha of minimum size sukkah?
Is the seemingly abrupt transition from the Baraisa of Queen Helene’s Sukkah to Rav Shmuel bar Yitzchak stating the halacha for a minimum size sukkah on Sukkah 3a indicating separate topics or are ...
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What is Rebbi Yehuda קבע requirement without which a sukkah would be invalid?
The Mishnah of Sukkah 2a states: סוכה שהיא גבוהה למעלה מעשרים אמה — פסולה. ורבי יהודה מכשיר, indicating that Rebbi Yehuda validates a sukkah above 20 amos because he holds that a sukkah is a דירת קבע.
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Why does Rav Huna state in Sukkah 2b that the dispute between the Tanna Kamma and Rebbi Yehuda is at exactly 4×4 amos, rather than 4×4 amos and less?
In regards to the argument between the Tanna Kamma and Rebbi Yehuda in Masechta Sukkah, Mishnah 2a regarding the 20 amos height limitation of a Sukkah, Rav Huna's dictum in the name of Rav is stated ...
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What is the definition of a דירת עראי?
The Mishnah in Gemara Sukkah 2a states: סוכה שהיא גבוהה למעלה מעשרים אמה פסולה. Rava states that the explanation of the 20 amos height limitation of the Mishnah finds its restriction in the fact that ...
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The Gemara (Sukkah 25b) mentions "taking your mind off your worries." Do any commentators elaborate on exactly how to do that?
The Gemara (Sukkah 25b) mentions that an avel (mourner) is obligated in the mitzvah of Sukkah. One might have thought that since someone who is mitzta'er (in pain) is exempt from the mitzvah, that an ...
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Question on talmud bavli succah 33B
Rav Chisda says that Rebbi says only black and red berries invalidate the hadas but green berries won’t since it’s specie from the hadas. Why does he only exclude black berries and not say to exclude ...
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Diagram showing the place where the wine offerings of the whole year collected and its relationship to the altar in the Temple
Gemoro Sukkah 49a refers to the “shittin”.
In the Temple, there was a a narrow shaft that was formed on the west side of the gap between the ramp and the altar.
Rashi on 'בין כבש למזבח' says:
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Why is a lulav from עיר הנדחת pasul because it lacks a shiur?
In לולב הגזול, the first Mishna says a לולב של עיר הנדחת is pasul. Rashi explains that this is because it "lacks" the minimal length of 4 tefachim, since it is supposed to be burned and is ...
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Hadas fruit tastes like tree
The Gemara says that the Hadas branch can be identified since it has a fruit which tastes like the wood. But how do Chazal derive this from the verse "Anaf Etz Avos"? There is no mention of ...
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What is the origin of mitzvah Aravah?
Mishna in Sukkah 4:3 describes the mitzvah of Aravah, which was performed in the temple by circling the mizbeach with willow branches. This mitzvah is not mentioned in any indexes of the 613 mitzvos. ...
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How many Menoros were there by the Simchas Bais HaShoeva
The Mishna Succah 51A says:
מְנוֹרוֹת שֶׁל זָהָב הָיוּ שָׁם, וְאַרְבָּעָה סְפָלִים שֶׁל זָהָב בְּרָאשֵׁיהֶם, וְאַרְבָּעָה סוּלָּמוֹת לְכׇל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד,
So we know that each Menorah had 4 cups on ...
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Sukkos 2a ~ Reality shows the need for 13-אמות while the Gemara states that the smallest Sukkah is enough?
ר׳ זירא says that a Sukkah that is lower than 20-אמות, the סכך is the one blocking the sun and creating the shadow, not the walls, and therefore the Sukkah is kosher, like it says in the פסוק
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What is a Dofen Akuma?
The gemara in Sukka 4 speaks of Dofen Akuma (literally a "bent wall"). How does this halacha look/work?
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A place with illustrations of Gemara Sukkah?
The beginning of Sukkah (4a/4b) describes different scenarios where platforms are built alongside the three walls of the Sukkah. I am having a very tough time picturing how they are built and ...
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Why is height the determining factor for the the blessing on the Lulav?
The Gemara Sukkah (37b) writes
ואמר רבה לולב בימין ואתרוג בשמאל מ"ט הני תלתא מצות והאי חדא מצוה א"ל
ר' ירמיה לר' זריקא מאי טעם לא מברכינן אלא על נטילת לולב הואיל וגבוה
מכולן ולגבהיה לאתרוג ...
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Superfluous Rashi in Sukkah 52b?
The Gemara proceeds to delineate the identities of the 7 shepherd and 8 princes mentioned in Michah 5:4. Amongst the 8 princes are עמוס and צפניה. Rashi ד״ה עמוס וצפניה states they are from Navi.
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Is a mitzvah fulfilled if its fulfillment is based on an averah?
The Mishnah Sukkah 2:3 says that if one builds a sukkah on top of a camel or a tree, it is valid, but one may not use it during yom tov (but may during chol ha-moed). Rashi adds that if one uses it ...
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Why a round Succah is not Dirat Kevah (permanent dwelling)?
אחרים אומרים סוכה העשויה כשובך פסולה לפי שאין לה זויות
Aḥerim (R'Meir?) say: A Succah built in a circular shape like a dovecote is unfit, because it does not have corners. [and a permanent residence ...
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Can a natural hollow become an Ohel for Tum'ah through human use?
In Mas. Sukkah 20b, R' Yehudah states his opinion that for something to be an ohel enough to shelter Tumah (and create a situation where that Tumah is transmitted within) the shelter has to be man ...
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Why can't you buy water for ma'aser sheni?
Ma'aser Sheni 1:5 says that water is an invalid option for buying with ma'aser sheni money. The reason, as Bartenura's commentary explains, is because ma'aser sheni money can only be used to buy ...
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Was there an Eruv in Jerusalem while the Temple stood?
Two mishnayot have confused me. The first is in Pesachim, which states that if 14 Nisan was on Shabbat, no one left the Temple Mount with their Korban Pesach until nightfall. The second is in Sukkah, ...
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Source for adjusting the calendar for Lo Ad'u Rosh rule
There are 4 rules that would cause the postponement of the 1st day of Rosh Hashanna from being on the day of the molad. One of the most commonly implemented rules is called Lo Ad'u Rosh, meaning that ...
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Vilna Gaon's gematria for the number of kosher & non-kosher sukkot in Masechet Sukkah
I remember once learning that the Vilna Gaon said that Maseches Sukkah (Bavli, Yerushalmi, Tosefta) talks about 85 non-kosher sukkot and 91 kosher sukkot.
The Gra said the way to remember this is ...
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What is learned from the story in Succah 2.7?
מִי שֶׁהָיָה רֹאשׁוֹ וְרֻבּוֹ בַסֻּכָּה, וְשֻׁלְחָנוֹ בְתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי פּוֹסְלִין, וּבֵית הִלֵּל מַכְשִׁירִין.
אָמְרוּ לָהֶן בֵּית הִלֵּל לְבֵית שַׁמַּאי, לֹא כָךְ הָיָה מַעֲשֶׂה, ...
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Why the minimal footage of a Succah is not mentioned in the Mishnah?
The first Mishnah in Succah discusses the height of Schach but not the measures. Subsequently, the Mishnah does not deal with it at all (Mishna 2.7 discusses the placement of the table independently ...
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Why aren't the walls also made of Schach?
The Gemmorah learns the obligation of Succah from the Clouds of Glory that surrounded the Jewish people on Exodus (and later).
It also learns (at least one opinion) that the Schach must resemble a ...
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How a Succah deserves to be made of waste?
כי אתא רבין אמר ר' יוחנן אמר קרא "באספך מגרנך ומיקבך"
בפסולת גורן ויקב הכתוב מדבר
Ravin ... said that Rabbi Yoḥanan said that the verse states: “You shall prepare for you the festival of Sukkot ...
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Does Torah mention actual living in Sukkot?
IIRC, R' Akiva's view is that the Jews lived in actual Succot when exiting Egypt (Sukkah 11b "ענני כבוד היו דברי רבי אליעזר, רבי עקיבא אומר: סוכות ממש עשו להם"). But I only remember that the Torah ...
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Greatest Happiness on Earth?
The Mishnah in Sukkah (5:1) says, “כָּל מִי שֶׁלֹּא רָאָה שִׂמְחַת בֵּית הַשּׁוֹאֵבָה לֹא רָאָה שִׂמְחָה מִיָּמָיו – Anyone who never witnessed the water drawing of the Simchas Beis HaShoeva never saw ...
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Are Beis Shammi and Beis Hillel really arguing about the minimum size of a succah or dwellability?
What are Beis Shammi and Beis Hillel really arguing about in Succah Daf 3a when the Mishna states: מי שהיה ראשו ורובו בסוכה ושולחנו בתוך הבית ב"ש פוסלין ובית הלל מכשירין?
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What is Rebbi Yehuda's source for allowing a succah to be above 20 amos?
Some say that R' Yehuda held that there is no Biblical source for the 20 amos limit and therefore ruled that a succah could be higher than 20 amos. But that would seem to go against the Gemara that ...
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Tosfos and the rain proof sukkah
The bottom Tosfos on Sukkah 2a (DH Ki Avid) talks about how it must be that the scach of a sukkah can't be rain proof, because if it was, then when the Rabbanan say that rain on sukkos is a bad sign (...
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Why does the Rambam change the wording of the Mishna in Succah 20b?
The Mishna in the beginning of the second Perek of Succah writes הישן תחת המטה בסוכה - לא יצא ידי חובתו
When the Rambam codifies this Halacha in the Mishna Torah, he changes the word הישן to היושב. ...
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Parameters of the bad omen for eclipses
The Gemara in Succah 29a says that solar eclipses are bad omens for the nations, while lunar eclipses are bad omens for the Jews. The Gemara compares an eclipse to a king who leaves his guests sitting ...
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Why does the Mishnah in Kilayim repeat halachos taught elsewhere?
Kilayim 4:3-4 teaches various halachos about walls, as a wall could divide between fields to allow planting on either side. Among those halachos taught are:
A wall must be 10 tefachim tall.
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Why is a suka forbidden for other uses all the eighth day, but an esrog is permitted after use?
The Talmud Bavli, Suka 46 amud 2, cites a difference of opinion as to how long an esrog and a suka are muktzim l'mitzvosehem, set aside for their respective mitzvos and forbidden for use for other ...
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Sukkos and Chanukah Connection
There are many parallels between Sukkos and Chanuka:
The Gemara in Shabbos 21b gives an explanation for Beis Shammai's
opinion that one should count down candles throughout Chanukah that
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"Karka Einah Nigzeles" (land can't be stolen) - really?
Borrowing is just renting without paying for it. Since you can rent land, you should be able to borrow it.
If you can borrow something, you can borrow it without permission.
Borrowing without ...
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Sasson and Simcha: What in the world is going on?
Once upon a time, there were two heretics, named Sasson and Simcha. Sasson said to Simcha, "I'm better than you. Even Yeshaya HaNavi agrees so; he put my name first, as it says, 'They will get Sasson ...
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What is greater: nevua or ruach hakodesh?
What is greater: nevua or ruach hakodesh?
Which one is a higher level, prophecy or holy spirit?
In Yerushalmi Succa Perek 1 Halacha 5 we find Yona ben Amiti, a novi, went to simchas beis hashuava ...
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How can G-d regret anything?
Does G-d regret making or creating something? Of course not! I've always believed this question to be silly and somewhat inappropriate, knowing that G-d is perfect, knows everything, has infinite ...
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Difficulty understanding Gemara's logic about number of necessary sukkah walls
Some background information
At Sukkah 6b, the gemara presents a dispute between R' Shimon and the Rabanan about how many walls are necessary for a sukkah to have. The Rabanan hold that a sukkah needs ...
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Queen Heleni was married to her brother--but I thought she kept all the derabanans
According to Wikipedia, Heleni HaMalkah was married to her brother. Since she was a convert to Judaism, on a Torah level, her familial relationships were severed. However, as far as I know, there is ...
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Could any of the lamed-vovniks be a non-Jew?
I am referring to the concept of Tzadikim Nistarim (lamed-vovniks)—the 36 hidden saints in the world because of whose righteousness the world continues to exist—addressed in this passage:
As a ...
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Hashem and Arabs
Someone quoted to me a Gemara in Sukkah which said that Hashem had charata that He created arabs. What daf in Sukkah is that on?
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Fruit Leather in Gemara Sukkah
It's been a while since I learned Sukkah....
Does anyone know where the Gemara talks about where the wine from נסכים goes; through an אמה (canal) to a container, where it sat and congealed until it ...
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Giving a lulav on condition to return, but in a chain where the last person keeps it
The Gemara in Sukkah on daf :מא relates a story of Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, and Rabbi Akiva riding on a boat. The time came to shake lulav, but only Rabban Gamliel had ...
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