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==Number of walls of the Sukkah== | ==Number of walls of the Sukkah== | ||
# The minimum number of walls necessary for a Sukkah is 3 of length 7 [[Tefachim]]. It's possible to build the third wall without having to complete it but footnote for details. <ref> S"A 630:2 according to the explanation of the Mishna Brurah 630:6 the third wall doesn't have to be a full wall of 7 [[Tefachim]] but must still look like a wall and so it's permissible to build two walls next to each other (say one is from southwest to southeast and the other is southeast to northeast) and then a third wall (from northeast to northwest) constructed with a wall which is more than one Tefach thick within 3 [[Tefachim]] to one of the two other walls (within 3 tefachim of the northeast corner) and also a poll at the end of 7 tefachim (7 [[Tefachim]] from the northeast corner) and a poll on top of the more than one tefach wall and the poll at the end of 7 [[Tefachim]]. See picture. [[Image:Minimum_sukkah.png | 100px | right]]</ref> | # The minimum number of walls necessary for a Sukkah is 3 of length 7 [[Tefachim]]. It's possible to build the third wall without having to complete it but footnote for details. <ref> S"A 630:2 according to the explanation of the Mishna Brurah 630:6 the third wall doesn't have to be a full wall of 7 [[Tefachim]] but must still look like a wall and so it's permissible to build two walls next to each other (say one is from southwest to southeast and the other is southeast to northeast) and then a third wall (from northeast to northwest) constructed with a wall which is more than one Tefach thick within 3 [[Tefachim]] to one of the two other walls (within 3 tefachim of the northeast corner) and also a poll at the end of 7 tefachim (7 [[Tefachim]] from the northeast corner) and a poll on top of the more than one tefach wall and the poll at the end of 7 [[Tefachim]]. See picture. [[Image:Minimum_sukkah.png | 100px | right]]</ref> | ||
# The minimum measure of a Sukkah is 7 [[Tefachim]] in length by 7 [[Tefachim]] in width and 10 [[Tefachim]] in height. <ref>S"A 633:8, 634:1, chazon ovadia sukkot page 9. </ref> | # The minimum measure of a Sukkah is 7 [[Tefachim]] in length by 7 [[Tefachim]] in width and 10 [[Tefachim]] in height. <ref>S"A 633:8, 634:1, chazon ovadia sukkot page 9. </ref> | ||
# There is no maximum width or length but the maximum height is 20 [[Amot]]. <ref>S"A 633:1, 634:1 </ref> | # There is no maximum width or length but the maximum height is 20 [[Amot]]. <ref>S"A 633:1, 634:1 </ref> | ||
# If the walls are made of polls or strings only in the horizontal direction or only in the vertical direction then one must have 4 wall complete walls, however, if there are 3 walls and a Tefach for the fourth wall it's a doubt whether it's acceptable. <ref>Halichot Shlomo (7:2 , | # If the walls are made of polls or strings only in the horizontal direction or only in the vertical direction then one must have 4 wall complete walls, however, if there are 3 walls and a Tefach for the fourth wall it's a doubt whether it's acceptable. <ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo (7:2, p. 98) </ref> | ||
# The walls must be built within 3 [[Tefachim]] of the ground. <ref> Halichot Shlomo (7:5, | # The walls must be built within 3 [[Tefachim]] of the ground. <ref>Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach in Halichot Shlomo (7:5, p. 100) </ref> | ||
===Arrangement of the walls=== | ===Arrangement of the walls=== | ||
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# If one built a sukkah under a tree or a house which would render it unfit, and then removed the branches or the roof to make it kosher, this isn't a problem of taaseh vilo min ha'asuy as the problem was never in the schach itself. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 33. </ref> | # If one built a sukkah under a tree or a house which would render it unfit, and then removed the branches or the roof to make it kosher, this isn't a problem of taaseh vilo min ha'asuy as the problem was never in the schach itself. <ref> Chazon Ovadia page 33. </ref> | ||
# One shouldn't use schach with a foul odor or whose leaves are falling off because there is a worry that the person may come to leave his sukkah because of the smell or the leaves falling on him. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 629:14 </ref> | # One shouldn't use schach with a foul odor or whose leaves are falling off because there is a worry that the person may come to leave his sukkah because of the smell or the leaves falling on him. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 629:14 </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. < | # 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 </ref> | ||
# If the schach of the sukkah was placed on a slant, the sukkah is still kosher. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 631:10 </ref> | # If the schach of the sukkah was placed on a slant, the sukkah is still kosher. <ref> Shulchan Aruch 631:10 </ref> | ||
# If a strong wind blew the schach higher than 3 tefachim above the sukkah and then fell back down, even though since it happened automatically it wasn't put down for the sake of shade, the sukkah is kosher since it was originally placed in a kosher manner. <ref> Sh"t Shevet Halevi 10:100 </ref> | # If a strong wind blew the schach higher than 3 tefachim above the sukkah and then fell back down, even though since it happened automatically it wasn't put down for the sake of shade, the sukkah is kosher since it was originally placed in a kosher manner. <ref> Sh"t Shevet Halevi 10:100 </ref> | ||
# If snow falls and solidifies on top the schach, it doesn't render the sukkah not kosher, and one can still eat in it and some poskim permit saying a beracha of leshev basukkah in this situation. <ref> Sh"t Ginat Veradim 4:7, Moed Likol Chai 21:20, Bikkurei Yaakov 626:7. Aruch Hashulchan 629:2 however only permits saying a beracha if the schach is still more than the snow. see Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 125 and Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 37. </ref> | # If snow falls and solidifies on top the schach, it doesn't render the sukkah not kosher, and one can still eat in it and some poskim permit saying a beracha of leshev basukkah in this situation. <ref> Sh"t Ginat Veradim 4:7, Moed Likol Chai 21:20, Bikkurei Yaakov 626:7. Aruch Hashulchan 629:2 however only permits saying a beracha if the schach is still more than the snow. see Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 125 and Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 37. </ref> | ||
# One may use spices which are only meant to be smelled or flowers which are only meant as decoration as Schach since it doesn't mekabel tumah.<ref>Rav Ovadyah Yosef in Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot, p. 23)</ref> | |||
==When should one build the Sukkah?== | ==When should one build the Sukkah?== | ||
# The pious are careful to build to begin building the Sukkah on Motzei [[Yom Kippur]] and finish it the next day in order to go from one mitzvah ([[Yom Kippur]]) to another (Sukkot). <ref>Rama 624:5, Mishan brurah 624:19, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 118, Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 99 </ref> | # The pious are careful to build to begin building the Sukkah on Motzei [[Yom Kippur]] and finish it the next day in order to go from one mitzvah ([[Yom Kippur]]) to another (Sukkot). <ref>Rama 624:5, Mishan brurah 624:19, Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 118, Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 99 </ref> | ||
