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==Decorations of the Sukkah== | ==Decorations of the Sukkah== | ||
# It is a mitzvah to decorate and beatify 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 beatify 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 all 8 days of Sukkot 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> | # The decorations of the Sukkah are forbidden from benefit all 8 days of Sukkot 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> | ||
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==Covering the Sukkah in case of rain== | ==Covering the Sukkah in case of rain== | ||
# It's permissible to cover the Sukkah with a plastic tarp to prevent it from getting wet if one places the tarp directly above the Shach and not a tefach above the Shach and one has in mind to remove the tarp when one next uses the Sukkah for the mitzvah. <ref> Sh"t Igrot Moshe 5:39(4) writes that it's permissible to cover the Sukkah with a plastic sheet on Shabbat and [[Yom Tov]] without an issue of Boneh by making an Ohel nor the issue of muktzah. </ref> | # It's permissible to cover the Sukkah with a plastic tarp to prevent it from getting wet if one places the tarp directly above the Shach and not a tefach above the Shach and one has in mind to remove the tarp when one next uses the Sukkah for the mitzvah. <ref> Sh"t Igrot Moshe 5:39(4) writes that it's permissible to cover the Sukkah with a plastic sheet on [[Shabbat]] and [[Yom Tov]] without an issue of Boneh by making an Ohel nor the issue of muktzah. </ref> | ||
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