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#When one appoints someone else to build their [[Sukkah]], it is proper to say to them "You are my messenger to do this Mitzvah of putting up my [[Sukkah]] and [[S'chach|''s'chach'']] for the Mitzvah".<ref>Kaf HaChaim 625:11 </ref> | #When one appoints someone else to build their [[Sukkah]], it is proper to say to them "You are my messenger to do this Mitzvah of putting up my [[Sukkah]] and [[S'chach|''s'chach'']] for the Mitzvah".<ref>Kaf HaChaim 625:11 </ref> | ||
===Taaseh Vilo Min Haasuy=== | ===''Taaseh Vilo Min Haasuy''=== | ||
#One should try to build the walls of the sukkah before putting up the [[S'chach|''s'chach'']].<ref>Rama O.C. 635:1</ref> According to | #One should try to build the walls of the ''sukkah'' before putting up the [[S'chach|''s'chach'']].<ref>Rama O.C. 635:1</ref> The reason for this is because the ''schach'' needs to be put up as shade for the ''sukkah''. If the ''sukkah'' walls weren't in place at the time, the ''schach'' doesn't function in its capacity of shade of a ''sukkah''. After the walls are put up, some ''poskim'' hold that this is a problem of ''taaseh vilo min haasuy'' (heb. תעשה ולא מן העשוי; lit. do and don't have it made from something that was already made), the ''schach'' must be put up properly and not come out to be valid based on a later circumstance.<ref>Mishna Brurah 635:9</ref> | ||
#If one builds a kosher sukkah, and then the walls fall down, whether they fall before Sukkot or during Sukkot, the | #According to Sephardi poskim, after the fact if one put up [[S'chach|''s'chach'']] and only afterwards filled in kosher walls, the ''sukkah'' is still kosher.<ref>Bach 635, Birkei Yosef 635:2, Maamar Mordechai 635:4, Moed Likol Chai 21:12, Chazon Ovadia Sukkot pg. 38. Chazon Ovadia even allows reciting a beracha on such a sukkah. However, Kaf Hachaim 635:18 quotes the dispute about this case and doesn't seem to definitely allow such a sukkah after the fact. </ref> Ashkenazi poskim are strict and invalidate such a ''sukkah''.<ref>Levush 638, Taz 635:4, Mishna Brurah 635:10, Hilchot Chag Bchag (1:7, p. 31) </ref> The way to correct such a ''sukkah'' is by taking off the ''schach'' and putting it back up after the walls were in place.<ref>Kaf Hachaim 635:11</ref> | ||
#If one builds a kosher sukkah, and then the walls fall down, whether they fall before ''Sukkot'' or during ''Sukkot'', the s''ukkah'' is still kosher when you put the walls back up, and this is not a violation of ''taaseh vilo min haasuy''.<ref>Chazon Ovadia Sukkot pg. 40, Kaf Hachaim 635:18; Pekudat Elazer 630, Mikraei Kodesh Sukkot 1:11; Shevet Halevi 7:56 and 8:146 </ref> However, some ''poskim'' rule that if this occurred before Sukkot, one is required to replace the [[S'chach|''s'chach'']].<ref>Sh"t Rav Pealim OC 1:34; 3:40</ref> | |||
==Number of Walls of the Sukkah== | ==Number of Walls of the Sukkah== | ||
