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# Although it is permitted for any person to place the [[schach]] <ref> Shulchan Aruch 635:1 </ref>, it is preferable to be stringent and have an adult Jewish male place it on the [[sukkah]]. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 635:8, Chida in Sefer Kaf Achat 24:2 </ref> Others hold that it is totally permitted to have women or children put up a sukkah.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 64)</ref> | # Although it is permitted for any person to place the [[schach]] <ref> Shulchan Aruch 635:1 </ref>, it is preferable to be stringent and have an adult Jewish male place it on the [[sukkah]]. <ref> Kaf Hachayim 635:8, Chida in Sefer Kaf Achat 24:2 </ref> Others hold that it is totally permitted to have women or children put up a sukkah.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 64)</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 Schach 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 Schach for the Mitzvah <ref> Kaf HaChaim 625:11 </ref> | ||
===Taaseh Vilo Min Haasuy=== | |||
# One should try to build the walls of the sukkah before putting up the sechach. According to some poskim, if one puts the sechach up onto poles and only after fills in the kosher walls, it is still kosher. <ref>Bach 635, Birkei Yosef 635:2, Maamar Mordechai 635:4, Moed Likol Chai 21:12. Chazon Ovadia Sukkot pg. 38 even allows reciting a beracha on such a sukkah </ref> Others are strict even after the fact.<ref> Levush 638, Taz 635:4 </ref> | |||
# If one builds a kosher sukkah, but the walls falls, whether they fall before Sukkot or during Sukkot, the Sukkah 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 Sechach.<ref>Rav Poalim 1:34; 3:40</ref> | |||
==Number of walls of the Sukkah== | ==Number of walls of the Sukkah== | ||
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