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 ”

“ If one stole pieces of wood and made a sukkah with them, even if they did not attach them or alter them at all, they have fulfilled their obligation. The Sages ordained that the person from whom the wood was stolen is owed only its value. However, if someone stole a sukkah that was built on top of a ship or on top of a wagon and dwells in it, they have not fulfilled their obligation. ”

“ We do not sleep underneath it. Rem"a: This is specifically if it goes along the entire length of the sukkah (Rabbeinu Yerucham) or if it is big enough to insert the head and the majority [of the body] . But otherwise, it is permitted, as there is no sukkah that does not have holes (R"an) . This idea that four of invalid schach or three of open space invalidates a sukkah is specifically when the sukkah is divided into two, and there does not remain a valid measure for a kosher sukkah with walls in one side. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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 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. ”

“ The source for this is the Torah portion of Emor (Vayikrah 23.34) : "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month will be the festival of Sukkos, a period of seven days dedicated to G-d...in a Sukkah you should dwell for seven days, in order that your generations know that in Sukkos did I cause the Children of Israel to dwell when I took them out of the land of Egypt" (23.42 - 23.44) .
Section 2 The Braisa in Gemara Sukkah (12.2) teaches as follows:
" '... that in Sukkos did I cause the Children of Israel to dwell ...' - These are the clouds of glory. These are the words of Rabbi Eliezer. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ If Shabbat falls on the evening after the last day of the holiday, the custom is to not use the decorations until after Shabbat. There are those who are permissive. Rem"a: There are some who have the custom upon leaving the sukkah of saying "May it be Your will that we merit to sit in the Leviathan's sukkah" (Kol Bo) . ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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) . ”

“ Paragraph 8 - We take wood leaning on the walls of the Sukkah and burn them. Rem"a: This is also the case if one threw bundles on top of the schach because they are not legally absorbed; if one had the intention to burn them, he is permitted to take them from there. ”

“ Know this: the (minimum) quantity of Pat Shacharit is a k'beitza and afterwards have an [alcoholic] drink if he has one, otherwise water as it says in B"M 107b, bread in salt and a flask of water, and Rashi explains, "if he doesn't have wine." And in Sukkah 26a: a snack may be eaten outside the Sukkah.. like those the students of Rav who taste [something] and enter the lecture, namely like the Rosh and Rashba wrote, "There are seven ways.." ”

“ This sukkah is invalid due to the principle of "'Make' not from that which was already made" invalidly. A decree was made regarding every bundle due to this situation. Because this prohibition was enacted only due to this reason, it was only necessary to prohibit the use of bundles that are commonly left to dry out: those that have no fewer than 25 sticks in them. Bundles of fewer than 25 sticks may be used as schach. If the 25 or more sticks come out of one stem, but they are separate at the other end and bound together there, this is not considered a bundle because they have the same root. ”

“ Even laying it on the schach in order to hold it in place is forbidden. This is the law for any object that is susceptible to ritual impurity, such as a bench and a chair that receive midras uncleanness (Maharil) .
סעיף ז
יש להסתפק אם מותר להניח סולם על הגג כדי לסכך על גביו: הגה ולכן אין לסכך עליו ואפי' להניחו על הסכך להחזיקו אסור וה"ה בכל כלי המקבל טומאה כגון ספסל וכסא שמקבלין טומאת מדרס (מהרי"ל) :
629:8 Attaching the beams of the sukkah with iron nails or tying them with cloths (meaning pieces of worn clothing) that are susceptible to ritual impurity is not a problem. ”

“ 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, however, one says "I make the condition that when they fall I will eat them," this is not effective at all. If one says, "I stipulate that I can eat them whenever I want," this is effective as twilight is included. Rem"a: One must make the stipulation before twilight of the first day (his own words based on the opinion of the Orkhot Hayyim brought by the Beit Yosef and not like the Mahari"l) . There are later authorities who write that these days it is not our custom to stipulate (Mahari"l) and this is how we act regarding the decorations hung from the schach. ”

“ If one made it for reclining purposes, it is susceptible to tumah and we may not cover a succah with it. But if he made it for covering a succah, we may indeed cover a succah with it, and it is not susceptible to tumah. ”

“ If one leans the schach on the posts and the legs are walls, even if there are not ten [tefachim] from the bed to the schach, it is valid, because there are ten tefachim from the ground to the schach. ”

“ If it is thick, [making it seem] like [the roof of] a house, such that the stars are not visible from inside, it is valid.
סעיף ג
דרך הסיכוך להיות קל כדי שיראו ממנו הכוכבים הגדולים היתה מעובה כמין בית אע"פ שאין הכוכבים נראים מתוכה כשרה:
631:4 If the schach is a very lightly placed with much empty space but no one place has three handbreadths of empty space and as a whole, the shade exceeds the sun, it is kosher. ”

“ Through this Mitzvah that G-d commanded us the same idea is taught to future generations, that though we may have sinned all year long, on Yom Kippur our sins are forgiven, as long as we return to Him with repentance. ”

“ It is used as a loin-wrapper, and is probably the first costume of Eastern Africa and of Arabia. The plate borrowed from Montfaucon’s edition of the “Topographia Christiana,” by Dr. Vincent (Part I. Appendix to the Periplus) shows the Shukkah, to be the general dress of Ethiopians, as it was of the Egyptians, and the spear their weapon. The use of the Shukkah during the Meccan pilgrimage, when the devotees cast off such innovations as coats and breeches for the national [150] garb of their ancestors, proves its antiquity throughout the regions eastward of the Red Sea. ”

“ During the whole year nobody differs from the opinion that the booth is exempt from these duties; they only disagree about the seven days of the feast. And the reason for the Sukka is one, and that for the chamber of the Temple is another. The reason for the Sukka is, because R. Jehudah is consistent with his theory that a Sukka must be a permanent dwelling; and a permanent dwelling requires a Mezuzah. The rabbis are in accordance with their theory that a Sukka need be only a temporary dwelling, which requires no Mezuzah. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The people of Sukhne are sedentary Arabs, of a breed half Fellah and half Bedouin. They bring to Aleppo alkali and ostrich feathers. It was upon one of these visits of the Sheïkh of Sukhne to Aleppo, that Burckhardt, after some negotiation, resolved to accept the protection of the sheïkh, who undertook, upon their arrival at his village, to place him under the protection of a Bedouin of sufficient influence to procure him a safe passage through the tribes of the country which he wished to explore. ”

“ You had better, therefore, ask him, Khan Sahib, and I will withdraw while you discuss it."
"No, no, no!" cried both, "stay with us; and," added Abbas Khan, gravely, "I have fully considered the matter, and have come to the conclusion that it would be better for us both that we continue to be separate."
"And what is to become of Sukeena, Meeah? Is she never to have a husband?"
"She has, or will have, much wealth," replied the young Khan; "and, as flies to honey, so, when it is known that she is free, a hundred suitors will send in their proposals, and you can take your choice. ”

“ The Shiek, well knowing that his master’s wishes were for him commands, which he must obey without reply, presumed not to mention the difficulties which he saw in the attempt. He himself understood as little about European gardens as the Sultan; and in all Cairo there was no mortal known to him, with whom he might find counsel in the business. Therefore he made search among the Christian slaves for a man skilful in gardening; and lighted exactly on the wrong hand for extricating him from his difficulty. ”

“ With the view of frustrating the presumed designs of Russia, and securing as far as practicable the integrity of Afghanistan as a barrier against the aggressive attempts of that ever-grasping power, the Indian government resolved on the restoration of the Shah Sujah, a cruel and merciless old prince, who, after blinding with his own dagger his kinsman Futteh Khan, had been exiled. ”

“ I shall refer to the temperature that we experienced during the campaign further on.
The population of Suakin is very "mixed."
There are Arabs belonging to all the neighbouring tribes—Hadendowas, Amaras, Fadlabs, Beni Amers, Bisharems, and Shaharibs. There are also a number of Soumalis.
They are quite black in colour, and naked with the exception of a white cloth worn round the loins. The women, at least some of them, cover their faces with a thin white material, which they wear wound round them and over their heads. These are mostly the married women. ”

“ In the beginning of August rumours reached Suakin that emissaries of the Mahdi were inciting the Arabs in the neighbourhood of Sinkat [328] and Erkowit [329] to revolt. On the 2nd Tewfik Bey, the Governor of Suakin, left for Sinkat, to inquire into the true state of affairs. He there learned that Osman Digma, a well-known slave-dealer, assisted by his nephews, Ahmed and Fagi Digma, had raised the Erkowit, Sherah, Mishab, Migadaff, and Bishirieh tribes in the name of the Mahdi. All these are small tribes, living in the Erkowit district ”

“ Then
their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
07:008:004 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
07:008:005 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves
of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint,
and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
07:008:006 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and
Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto
thine army? ”