Eating in the Sukkah: Difference between revisions
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==Who is obligated to eat in the Sukkah?== | ==Who is obligated to eat in the Sukkah?== | ||
# Women are exempt from the Sukkah. <ref> Mishna Sukkah 28a, S"A 640:1 </ref> | # Women are exempt from the Sukkah. <ref> Mishna Sukkah 28a, S"A 640:1 </ref> | ||
# Very young children are exempt from the Sukkah, however, once they are reach that they no longer need their mother (around age 5) there is a mitzvah of Chinuch (training them in mitzvot) that a child be obligated in sitting in the sukkah. <ref>S"A 640:2, Mishna Brurah 640:2 </ref> | # Very young children are exempt from the Sukkah, however, once they are reach that they no longer need their mother (around age 5) there is a mitzvah of Chinuch (training them in mitzvot) that a child be obligated in sitting in the sukkah. <ref> S"A 640:2, Mishna Brurah 640:2. The Magen Avraham 640 says that it is prohibited to feed children outside the sukkah, just like it is forbidden to feed children not kosher food. Sh"uT Binyan Av 1:25 says that a man cannot feed the child outside the sukkah but a woman can. The Mishna Berura 640:5 quotes this magen avraham and adds that on shouldn't even tell the child to eat outside the sukkah. Rav Moshe Shternbuch in Tshuvot Vihanhagot 3:211 says very young children are exempt based on the fact that they need their mothers to eat properly. Aruch Hashulchan 640:2 justifies not obligating them in sukka because children have a lower tolerance for the cold.</ref> | ||
# A person who is sick is exempt from the Sukkah. <ref>S"A 640:3 </ref> | # A person who is sick is exempt from the Sukkah. <ref>S"A 640:3 </ref> | ||
