Questions tagged [sukkah]
the temporary house in which we live on the holiday of Sukos (Tabernacles) each year
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Making a sukkah your house
They say your sukkah should become like your house for all of Sukkot, meaning you eat there, sleep there, and just spend most of your time there. However normally, one doesn’t always let’s say eat in ...
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Watching TV in the Sukkah?
Are there any poseqim that discuss the permissibility or lack thereof of watching TV, or any streaming media really, in the Sukkah?
What is the balance between the principles of תשבו כעין תדורו (that ...
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לישב בסוכה the second night if you've been in the sukkah continuously
Let's say you were in the sukkah on the first day of Sukkos, outside Israel, and said לישב בסוכה. You have not interrupted your stay in the sukkah. Now it's the second night. Do you say the bracha ...
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Esrog 4 Seasons
I heard that aside from the achdus represented by taking the four minim together, each min by itself also has an aspect of achdus either in how its leaves grow or with the esrog in that it requires ...
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Different Schach Mats
Does anyone know the difference between the Schach mats that are sold on all the Sukkah websites?
I understand that nylon string connecting the slats is an issue but the Star-k website (see below) ...
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Looking for picture of "tzadikkim in sukkah"
I recently saw a noy-sukkah, it was a picture of many tzaddikim (chasidic rebbis and litvish gedolim) gathered around a table in a large sukkah, with the head of the table empty (I gather it's ...
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During the Exodus, why didn't God house the Israelites in real Succot?
"לְמַעַן יֵדְעוּ דֹרֹתֵיכֶם כִּי בַסֻּכּוֹת הוֹשַׁבְתִּי אֶת־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּהוֹצִיאִי אוֹתָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם...׃
in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people ...
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Does one have to eat in a sukkah if they were going to eat outside anyways?
If a sukkah is a temporary replacement for a home, does one need to eat in a sukkah if they were in a park or at a restaurant?
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Why we have to say Keriat Shma on the bed in the Sukkah?
It is known that on Passover night the custom is not to say Keriat Shma on the bed since it is called Shimurim night - a night that is preserved from the 'bad winds' (Mazikim). We don't put a Mezuza ...
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What does the word s'chach סכך have to do with anointing or pouring?
What does the word s'chach סכך (the roof of a sukkah or succah) have to do with anointing or pouring?
The word s'chach סכך appears to come from the verb to anoint or to pour, as in the following ...
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Why is the minimum size of a sukkah too small to sleep in?
As far as I understand, the Mitzvah of Sukkah is to eat and sleep in it and treat it as your home.
Nevertheless, the minimum size of a Sukkah is 7 x 7 tefachim, which is big enough to eat in but not ...
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Non-Jew Allowed in the Sukkah
I heard in a class that there is either an prohibition or at least an inyan not to have a non-Jew in the sukkah.
What is the source for this?
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Can you use jute twine to hold down the schach of a sukka
In one of the Lakewood weekly (free) papers, I recently came across an ad from Rabbi Yehuda Shain in which he notes that jute twine is acceptable to tie and hold down schach. Keeping the lecatchila ...
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Looking for Schach Ideas
I have a bit of unique situation. I have a nice sized outdoor space (I live in a basement apartment) in an urban area and wanted to put up a sukkah. I have large walls on every side of the space and ...
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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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Is one allowed to use neighbor's overhanging tree branches for schach?
The Shulchan Aruch in CM 155:26 rules that if the neighbor's overhanging tree branches present a nuisance, one is allowed to cut them until the property line.
Is one allowed to cut these branches if ...
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What is the best modern day, Hebrew kitzur sefer for learning hilchos succah?
I am looking for something in the style of ספר ארחות שבת. That is, something that has short introductions to each subsection in which the author will explain the relevant background from the gemaras ...
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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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Interdimensional Succahs [closed]
1: Setting aside the issues of Halachically defined time in space, and ignoring the physical constraints limiting a spacecraft from having Schach mounted properly, how should Schach be oriented to ...
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Why do some people require shaking Arba Minim (four species) in the Succah?
Related (but not a duplicate of) the old question here inquiring the logical connection between Arba Minim and the holiday of Succot.
My question is in a slightly different vein - if the Arba Minim ...
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How much of the roof of a sukkah must be open?
Yesterday, during lunchtime in a sukkah with generous schach, l got into a discussion on the minimum and maximum fraction of the area of the roof of a sukkah that must be sufficiently open that you ...
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Bal Tosif for women eating in sukah on Shmini Atezeret?
It is written in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 66:1 that one may not sit a sukkah on Shemini Atzeret (Simchat Torah in chutz la'aretz) because it looks like bal tosif. Does this also apply to women? Can ...
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Is the Ethrog upside down? [duplicate]
I have a question regarding waving the lulav and ethrog. The mesorah (sukkah 45b, Mishneh Brurah 651:16) tells us to wave/hold the arba minim in the direction that it grows. But the tradition is to ...
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How can a Sukkah be used as a protection from "Storm and Rain"?
According to the last verse of "Yeshayahu - Isaiah - Chapter 4",
a Sukkah is
"for a shelter and for a covert from stream and from rain" (Chabad) or
"for a refuge and for a ...
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What are the references or terms for the word sukkah?
Which words or descriptions serve as references for the word sukkah? I will accept any and all sources that are accepted here at mi yodeya.
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Does the law of pi tikrah apply to temporary structures such as a sukkah?
In Eruvin 94b the Sages are debating about the Sinaitic law of partitions, more specifically “pi tikrah” ( פי תקרה יורד וסותם .) Here the topic is about permanent homes. Presently, I am in the process ...
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Is it perfectly fine halachically to put up the schach first and then tie down the canvas walls?
If one has a sukkah with canvas walls that sway in the wind, can he put the schach on top of the sukkah before tying down the canvas walls so they won't sway, or would it be a problem of "Taaseh ...
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Why do we celebrate Sukkot in booths?
The Torah says:
You shall dwell in booths for seven days... so that your generations might know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths. [Lev. 23:42-43]
The stated reason seems strange. ...
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Who said the "sukkot" were really "clouds of glory"?
The Torah says: “I made the children of Israel dwell in booths”. [Lev. 23:42-43]
The Talmud says: Rabbi Eliezer said that these booths were clouds of glory, but Rabbi Akiva said that these booths were ...
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Why is Succos in Tishrei and not in Nissan - less famous answers
There is a famous question of the Tur why Succos is in Tishrei and not in Nissan, when we actually left Mitzraim and received the Clouds of Glory. (You can find the Tur's answer here and here where it ...
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Practical Walls of Canvas Sukkah
Without getting into the question of the walls of a canvas sukkah (see Shulchan Aruch OC 630:10), what are some easy and practical methods of making kosher walls in such a canvas sukkah? (We try the ...
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Would a hole in the ground with schach over the hole constitute a kosher sukkah?
If a hole was dug in the ground with 4 sides, would the 4 sides constitute walls that can be used for a sukkah?
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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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Differences in Halachic wording - "This isn't X" or "This is not Kosher X"
In Succah 8b I noticed two different wordings regarding a Succah:
א"ר לוי משום ר"מ שתי סוכות של יוצרים זו לפנים מזו -
הפנימית אינה סוכה
R' Levi said in the name of R' Meir: two craftsmen’s ...
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Interesting difference between רבנים and דיינים
רבנן דקיסרי ואמרי לה דייני דקיסרי אמרי ...
The Sages of Caesarea, and some say that it was the judges of Caesarea, said that ... (Succah 8b)
I'd assume that רבנים are דיינים and vice verse. But here, ...
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Additional examples of measuring length in 'whole people in Halachah
אמר ר' יוחנן: סוכה העשויה ככבשן, אם יש בהקיפה
כדי לישב בה כ"ד בני אדם כשרה ואם לאו פסולה.
Rabbi Yoḥanan said: With regard to a sukka that is shaped like a furnace and is completely round, if ...
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How an open Succah must be oriented?
THe Halachah allows a Succah to have only 2 walls and something (or 3 walls), so a big opening is, therefore possible.
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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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Requirements for Succah's floor
Long passages of Masechet Succah discuss the requirements for the Schach and the walls but I don't find a discussion of what constitutes the floor.
I can think of two related Nafka Minot (Halachic ...
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Sources for connection between Succah and Chuppah
I can see many things in common, they both relate to the story of the Exodus - G-d seated the Israelites in Succos and Matan Torah was sort of a Chuppah something, both have 4 bars and a feeble roof, ...
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What's the logic that a Kosher Succah can lack a wall or two?
The Gemmorah in Succa (6-7) presents two views on the number of walls in a Kosher Succah - either 2 walls and a notch of 4 inches or 3 walls and a notch. Anyway, one or two walls can be largely ...
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Sitting in the Succah of Whale skin in the world to come?
Please explain the following Gemmorah:
ואמר רבה א"ר יוחנן עתיד הקב"ה לעשות סוכה לצדיקים מעורו של לויתן
And Rabba says that Rabbi Yoḥanan says: In the future, the Holy One, Blessed be He, will ...
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Halachic approaches to marital relations in a Succah
What are the Halachic approaches to allowing or prohibiting marital relations in one's Succah?
Note: This question does not ask for the final accepted Halachah, but for the sources for different ...
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Does schach have to lie completely flat on top of the succah?
During Succot, we were discussing what materials may be used to secure the schach. Most people that I know, including I, use a bamboo mat and lay some planks of wood on top to secure it down.
Someone ...
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Is fixed wooden diagonal Schach Kosher for a Sucah?
We visited a family of non-orthodox Jews here in Jerusalem that has a permanent wooden pergola on their large balcony. The roof is a wooden frame with wooden bars about 2x10 cm freely inserted (no ...
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Can Schach that fell be restored on Shabbat/Chag?
If the Schach or a portion of it fell/flew off during Shabbat/Chag, can it be placed back?
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Can one tie their sukkah wall to keep it from collapsing in heavy wind?
If the sukkah is able to stand on it's own under normal circumstances, can one tie the sukkah wall "down" to a branch for instance, in order to add extra support for heavy wind?
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Why would the Jews dwell in booths specifically while fighting Sichon and Og?
The Rokeach § 219 (brought by Eliyah Rabbah 625:1) brings those who say that when Rabbi Akiva (Sukkah 11b) says that Sukkos commemorates the sukkos that the Jews dwelled in, it's referring to when ...
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Are there potential problems with this sukkah? [closed]
I plan on making two walls of my sukkah from wooden panels constructed out of vertical slats nailed to a horizontal wooden slat at the top and bottom. The walls will be just over 10 tefachim high and ...
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