Sukkot

“ It is a testimony to the existence of the Creator, who created all according to His will and who has the power, control, and ability to direct all that happens on high and in the lower world, to do with them as He wills, as he had done with us when he brought us forth form Egypt with signs and wonders. Sukkos specifically relates to the clouds of glory, with which they were surrounded, protecting them from the elements. ”

“ We do not benefit from them for other things for all eight days because on the seventh day the sukkah itself is entirely muktzeh until twilight, and since it is muktzeh for twilight it is muktzeh for the whole [eighth] day. Rem"a: Even if the sukkah fell over, it is forbidden, and a condition [that it will be permitted if it falls] is not effective (Tur) . But wood that leans on the sukkah is permitted [to be used] , see 518:8. And if after the minimum requirement for the size of the walls is met and the valid sukkah is complete, one adds a wall, it is not forbidden. ”

“ Rabbi Akiva is of the opinion that a Sukkah is not a sensible metaphor for the clouds of glory. One cannot make a replica of the clouds, and one does not derive a law from a source that is not part of the natural order or is otherwise impossible conceptually. ”

“ An old sukkah — that is, one that was made more than thirty days before the holiday — is valid provided something new was done to it for the sake of the festival. For this, even a handbreadth by a handbreadth [of schach] is sufficient if it is in one place. If the new thing goes across the whole sukkah, even a little bit is sufficient. ”

“ However, a twenty amot tall sukkah is valid, even if all of its schach is above twenty [amot] because its interior is only twenty [amot] .
סעיף א
סוכה שהיא גבוה למעלה מעשרים אמה פסולה בין שהיא גדולה בין שהיא קטנה בין שמחיצות מגיעות לסכך בין שאינן מגיעות אבל עשרים כשרה אפי' כל סככה למעלה מעשרים כיון שאין בחללה אלא עשרים:
633:2 If the sukkah is taller than twenty [amot] and hutzin (meaning small branches with leaves) hang down, if their shade is greater than their sunlight, it is valid. Otherwise, it is invalid. ”

“ The momentous event commemorated by the Sukkos was the outstanding behavior of the Jewish People in the desert, that they willingly traveled - men, women, and children, tens of thousands - in a place where it is not in the nature of people to dwell. ”

“ If the pile is big and the dedicated space was only a tefach [-tall] carve-out for seven [by seven] tefachs and they carve it out to make a big sukkah, it is not all deemed valid by virtue of the seven-long [careveout] that was made initially. If they dig out four amot from each side, beyond the initial seven, even the initial seven is invalid, as invalid schach invalidates from the side when it is four amot wide. Rem"a: One may not put on the schach before finishing the walls. ”

“ We eat, drink, and sleep in the Sukkah all seven days, both day and night, and we do not sleep outside of the sukkah, even for naps. But one may eat an insubstantial meal outside of the sukkah. How much is an insubstantial meal? Approximately an egg's worth of a loaf of bread. And it is permitted to drink water and wine and eat fruit (even if it is made into a meal (own opinion) ) outside of the Sukkah. Those who are stringent and will not drink even water outside of the sukkah are praiseworthy. ”

“ Sokkā says, “I could not drive the cattle to the stalls; they are in the jungle.”
The Heṭṭirāla, not trusting the word he said, went into the jungle to look at the cattle. When he was going, the stench [of the dead bodies] began to strike him to the extent that he was unable to go into the jungle. Having gone in, when he looked he saw that there are the heads and legs of the cattle. “Sokkā is good! I ate the meat. I must kill Sokkā,” he got into his mind.
The Heṭṭirāla had taken a contract to give firewood to a ship. He told Sokkā to cut firewood by the yard account for the ship. ”

“ The next time she went out, it was to follow very miserably in the wedding procession of the snake; and his mother had arranged that Sukkia should have torches to carry on her head and in her two hands, so that, when the wind blew towards her, she would be burnt to death. All happened as arranged, but when Sukkia cried out, “I am burning, I am burning!” Rajah Bunsi Lall heard her and quickly ran to her rescue. Together they ran away and escaped to the upper world, and found their former home, where they lived happily ever after. ”

“ Even if one is just traveling during the day, they are exempt even at night because they cannot make a dwellingplace there. Those who go to villages to collect debts who do not have a sukkah in those villages should be stringent on themselves to return to their houses each night to eat in the sukkah. ”

“ Sokkā, asking for a very rapidly running horse and a very sharp-edged sword, mounted upon the back of the horse, and having bounded into the middle of the hostile army who were building the enemy’s encampment, driving on the horse to the extent possible, he began to cut on that and this hand (ē mē ata) . Sokkā having cut down as many as possible, stringing a head, also, on his very sword, came to the royal palace. Thereupon, the forces (pirisa) who were building the encampment, thought, “If so much damage came from one man, how much will there be from the other forces!” ”

“ An engineer was waiting at Sukkur railway station to show me the great bridge, and as I had to continue my journey the same evening we were obliged to face the heat of the sun and started back towards the river on a trolley worked by hand levers. We passed a kite's nest close to the railway on the perpendicular face of a mass of limestone rock.
Sukkur is a good-sized town of more than 30,000 inhabitants, but its buildings seemed {279} to be all of wattle and daub, though three and even four storeys high, and they were grey in colour, uncomfortably monotonous in the terrific heat. ”

“ Those who guard the city at night are exempt at night and obligated during the day.
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שומרי העיר ביום פטורים ביום וחייבים בלילה שומרי העיר בלילה פטורים בלילה וחייבים ביום:
640:10 Those who guard fields and orchards are exempt both during the day and at night, because if the guard makes a sukkah, the thief will know that they have a set place and will steal from someplace else. Therefore, if somebody is guarding a collection of crops that can all be kept in one place, he is obligated in the place that they are kept. ”

“ Athira was the wife of Madu, who was a charcoal-burner, one-eyed and of a malignant disposition. A week after their marriage, he beat Athira with a heavy stick. A month later, Suket Singh, Sepoy, came that way to the cool hills on leave from his regiment, and electrified the villagers of Kodru with tales of service and glory under the Government, and the honour in which he, Suket Singh, was held by the Colonel Sahib Bahadur. ”

“ In a place where he cannot sleep with his wife, as he does not have a dedicated sukkah, he is exempt. It is good to be stringent and to be there with his wife, just as he resides all year, if he can have a dedicated sukkah. ”

“ If one overpowered their fellow, removed them from the sukkah, stole it, and dwelled in it, they fulfill their obligation, since land cannot be stolen. Rem"a: Preferably, though, one should not sit in their friend's sukkah without permission, all the more so with the intent to steal it. Similarly, we do not preferably make a sukkah on someone else's property without their permission ”

“ A sukkah which is taller than twenty amot is unfit for use, [however] , Rabbi Yehudah permits it.
One which is not ten tephachim tall, or which does not contain three walls or which has more sun that shade, is unfit for use. ”

“ Proud, ignorant, bigoted and insolent, the people of Sokoto are all owners of cattle, camels, horses and slaves. These latter, along with the women, generally cultivate some fields of dhurra, or corn, sufficient for their wants. The Arab, in Sokoto, would consider it a disgrace to practice any manual labour. He is essentially a hunter, a robber and a warrior, and, after caring for his cattle, devotes all his energies to slave-hunting and war. The lower classes are simply a rabble of filth, petty mendicancy, gaol-bird physiognomy and cringing hypocrisy. ”

“ If a sukkah is constructed upon a wagon or upon a boat, if it cannot withstand ordinary land winds it is invalid. However, if it can withstand ordinary land winds, even if it cannot withstand ordinary sea winds, it is valid. ”

“ It did not take long for her to make an impression on the heart of Souk, and soon both the young people found themselves over head and ears in love with each other.
The Indian girl was proud of her lover, as well she might be, for he was only twenty-eight years of age, tall, handsome, good-tempered, and manly in his deportment. Besides these considerations in his favour, he was virtually the head of his tribe, and no warrior was more renowned for deeds of valour. A born chief, the idol of his aged father, prepossessing in his appearance, already the leader of his band and its chief warrior. ”

“ The Sokulks seem to be of a mild and peaceable disposition, and live in a state of comparative happiness. The men like those on the Kimooenim, are said to content themselves with a single wife, with whom we observe the husband shares the labours of procuring subsistence much more than is usual among savages. What may be considered as an unequivocal proof of their good disposition, is the great respect which was shown to old age. ”

“ An Askia went to attack Es-Suk, and destroyed it. Rather than submit to the yoke of the conqueror, the Tuaregs abandoned their capital, and fled to the Ahaggar heights or the plateaux of Air. According to a legend only one Es Suk escaped, a man named Mohamed ben [208] Eddain, who founded a new tribe, that of the present Kel es Suk, by giving his daughters in marriage to Arabs, sheriffs of the tribe of El Abaker, descendants of the Ansars, or first companions of the Prophet. ”

“ In that case, remove the ‘Ashteroth Karnayim’ and there will remain the shade of the Sukkah, but here, remove the walls, and you have no shade of a Sukkah.20 Raba replied: [It is derived] from the following verse, Ye shall dwell in booths seven days,21 the Torah declared, For the whole seven days leave thy permanent abode and dwell in a temporary abode. [With a booth] up to twenty cubits [high] a man makes his abode a temporary one ”

“ Having gone a considerable distance, when they were approaching the house he said to Sokkā, “Go thou, and as there has been no food for me for two days or three days, tell grandmother to prepare something for food.”
Having said “Hā,” Sokkā having gone running, says, “Grandmother, madness having seized him, the Heṭṭirāla is coming. No one can speak [to him] ; then he beats them. You will be unable to be rid of it.” ”

“ Then Sokkā having gone said to the Heṭṭirāla’s younger sister and brother-in-law, “The Heṭṭirāla is coming; as he has become ill he is coming. Because of it, he does not eat anything. He said that having removed the shells from unripe pulse and prepared balls of it, you are to place them [ready] ; and that having killed a fowl for me I am to eat it with cooked rice, he said. The Heṭṭirāla at night is himself accustomed to salt gruel.” ”

“ At an early hour started with a favorable wind, but in about two hours were obliged to put to shore. The river hereabouts makes several turns almost at right angles with each other. This circumstance brought the wind directly ahead in one of the bends and obliged us to remain there till next morning. The country we saw to-day is not equal to the territory of Succoot; the date trees, the villages, and the cultivation are not so continued; and the view from the river is bounded at a little distance from its banks by low rocky hills. ”

“ There are those who say that this small space should not be empty space but must be wall or schach (Ros"h in the name of the R"i, Rambam ch. 4) . It must be 7x7 tefachim and taller than ten tefachim (Tur) . The walls, which are taller than ten, must also be made out of materials that can be used as schach (Ra"n the end of ch.1 of Sukkah) . If all of the walls are made of materials that can be used for schach one may sleep even under the walls (commentary of Rabbeinu Yerucham 1:1) . ”

“ Sukkur is one of the most ancient of Indian cities, and was mentioned as time-worn by the Greek geographers, while tradition says that its antiquities attracted Alexander; but towns grow old with great rapidity in India, and, once ancient in their look, never to the eye become in the slightest degree older. ”

“ When Skopte was with the king he represented to him that there was relationship between the king and him; and also that he, Skopte, had always been the king's friend, and his father's likewise, and that their friendship had never been shaken. He added, "People might know that I have sense enough not to hold a strife, sire, with you, if I was wrong in what I asked; but it is inherited from my ancestors to defend my rights against any man, without distinction of persons." The king was just the same on this point, and his resolution was by no means softened by such a speech. ”

“ Penuel and Succoth lay in the way between the wilderness in which the Midianites dwelt and the valleys of western Palestine. The men of these cities feared that if they aided Gideon they would bring on themselves the vengeance of the desert tribes. Yet where do we see the lowest point of unfaith and meanness, in Ephraim or Succoth? It is perhaps hard to say which are the least manly: those contrive to join the conquering host and snatch the credit of victory ”