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==S'chach of Sukkah== | ==S'chach of Sukkah== | ||
# There's three conditions regarding the S'chach (covering) of the Sukkah. It must be made from a material that grows from the ground, is unattached from the ground, and is impervious to impurity (see further for examples). <ref>S"A 629:1 </ref> | # There's three conditions regarding the S'chach (covering) of the Sukkah. It must be made from a material that grows from the ground, is unattached from the ground, and is impervious to impurity (see further for examples). <ref>S"A 629:1 </ref> | ||
# Metal, dirt, and animal hides are unfit for S'chach as they do not grow from the ground. <ref>S"A and Rama 629:1 </ref> | # Metal, dirt, and animal hides are unfit for S'chach as they do not grow from the ground. <ref>S"A and Rama 629:1 </ref> | ||
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==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 </ref> | ||
# If a Sukkah was set up before 30 days before sukkot, | # If a Sukkah was set up with the S'chach from before 30 days before sukkot and it wasn't made for the purpose of the mitzvah of Sukkot one must change or improve one thing (such as putting down S'chach) of an area a Tefah by a Tefach or the whole width even if it's of minimal length (or visa versa). However, if it was made within 30 days of Sukkot or was made for the express purpose of Sukkot it's fit even without any change. However, if the Sukkah was originally built for Sukkot and stands unchanged year to year it requires some change the each year. This is only if the S'chach was put in advance but if just the walls were putup in advance and not the S'chach there's no issue. <reF>S"A 636:1, Mishan Brurah 636:1, 5-7. Mishna Brurah 636:4 also points out that this is only the preferable course of action (but after the fact isn't absolutely necessary). </ref> | ||
# If you forgot can | # If you forgot to build a sukkah before Sukkot one can build it on chol hamoed. However, one may not build it or fix it on Yom Tov. <ref>S"A 637:1, Mishna Brurah 637:1 </ref> | ||
==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> | ||
# | # 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 | # 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 | # 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 who makes colored paper chains as a decoration of the Sukkah should make sure that it is within 4 Tefachim of the S'chach. After the fact, it is, nonetheless, fit to sit, eat, and sleep under. <ref>Chazon Ovadyah (Sukkot pg 76) </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> | |||
==Covering the Sukkah in case of rain== | ==Covering the Sukkah in case of rain== | ||
