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==Building the Sukkah== | |||
# One should try to begin building the sukkah immediately after Yom Kippur so that he goes one from mitzva to another. <ref> Rama 624:5 and 625:1 </ref> | |||
# One should try to personally be involved in the construction of his sukkah. <ref> Rav Reuven Margolis in Nefesh Chaya 625:1 writes that even one who cannot sit in the Sukkah for whatever reason and has no male family members that are required to sit in the Sukkah, still should | |||
have a Sukkah built to at least perform the mitzvah of "Building" a Sukkah. He cites the Gemara Makkot 8a, Shvuot 29a, and Yerushalmi Berachot 9:3 that a beracha is recited on the construction of a sukkah. </ref> If one is unable to build a Sukkah on their own and has someone else do it for | |||
them, it is proper to have the one building it to at least leave off a small amount of Sechach for the owner of the Sukkah to put up by himself. <ref> Kaf HaChaim | |||
625:11. see also [http://www.dailyhalacha.com/displayRead.asp?readID=684&txtSearch=build%20succah Rabbi Eli Mansour's Dailyhalacha] for a longer discussion </ref> | |||
# One should especially try to avoid having a non-Jew build his Sukkh, particularly the sechah. <ref> Chida in Sefer Kaf Achat 24:2 </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 Sechach for the Mitzvah <ref> Kaf HaChaim 625:11 </ref> | |||
==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> | ||
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# If the decorations fell on [[Yom Tov]] they are muktzah and can not be moved. <ref>Rama 638:2, Chazon Ovadyah (Sukkot pg 83) </ref> | # If the decorations fell on [[Yom Tov]] they are muktzah and can not be moved. <ref>Rama 638:2, Chazon Ovadyah (Sukkot pg 83) </ref> | ||
# If one needs to remove a decoration because of fear of rain or thieves preferably one should stipulate (as above), however, if one forgot then one may remove them one Chol HaMoed. <ref>Mishna Brurah 638:24, Chazon Ovadyah (Sukkot pg 92), Shalmei Moed (pg 107) </ref> | # If one needs to remove a decoration because of fear of rain or thieves preferably one should stipulate (as above), however, if one forgot then one may remove them one Chol HaMoed. <ref>Mishna Brurah 638:24, Chazon Ovadyah (Sukkot pg 92), Shalmei Moed (pg 107) </ref> | ||
==Miscellaneous== | ==Miscellaneous== | ||
# A sukkah built for sukkot is exempt from a mezuza since it is a temporary structure. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 94, Shulchan Aruch YD 286:11 based on Yoma 10b. </ref> | # A sukkah built for sukkot is exempt from a mezuza since it is a temporary structure. <ref> Chazon Ovadia [[Sukkot]] page 94, Shulchan Aruch YD 286:11 based on Yoma 10b. </ref> | ||
