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==Decorations of the Sukkah== | ==Decorations of the Sukkah== | ||
# It is a mitzvah to decorate and beautify the [[sukkah]]. <ref>Gemara [[Shabbat]] 133b, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Sukkot]] pg 74). Mishna Brurah 638:11 writes that it's a mitzvah to decorate the [[sukkah]] with important fruit and clothes, however, one should not hang nice fruit if one has children and one knows that the children will rip them down and eat them. </ref> | # It is a mitzvah to decorate and beautify the [[sukkah]]. <ref>Gemara [[Shabbat]] 133b, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Sukkot]] pg 74). Mishna Brurah 638:11 writes that it's a mitzvah to decorate the [[sukkah]] with important fruit and clothes, however, one should not hang nice fruit if one has children and one knows that the children will rip them down and eat them. </ref> | ||
# The decorations of the [[Sukkah]] are forbidden from benefit | # The decorations of the [[Sukkah]] are forbidden from benefit from the first day of [[Sukkot]] until after [[Simchat Torah]] unless one stipulates before [[Yom Tov]] that I want to be able to eat and get benefit from these decorations at any time during the holiday. <ref>S"A 638:2, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Sukkot]] pg 77) </ref> | ||
# If the decorations fell on [[Chol HaMoed]] one may move them and put them back up, however, one may not benefit from it (if it's food one may not eat it) unless one stipulated as above. <ref>Mishna Brurah 638:13-4, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Sukkot]] pg 83)</ref> | # If the decorations fell on [[Chol HaMoed]] one may move them and put them back up, however, one may not benefit from it (if it's food one may not eat it) unless one stipulated as above. <ref>Mishna Brurah 638:13-4, Chazon Ovadyah ([[Sukkot]] pg 83)</ref> | ||
# One should make sure to keep the decorations hanging from the [[S'chach]] within 4 [[Tefachim]] of the [[S'chach]]. <ref>Rama 627:4 </ref> | # One should make sure to keep the decorations hanging from the [[S'chach]] within 4 [[Tefachim]] of the [[S'chach]]. <ref>Rama 627:4 </ref> | ||
