Eating in the Sukkah: Difference between revisions

#Women are exempt from the [[Sukkah]].<ref>Mishna [[Sukkah]] 28a, Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 640:1 </ref> They can volunteer to sit in the Sukkah and if they do so, according to Ashkenazim can recite a bracha, while according to Sephardim they may not.<ref>{{Bracha on Mitzvot Aseh Shehazman Grama}}</ref>

#Very young children are exempt from the [[Sukkah]], however, once 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>Shulchan Aruch 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"t Binyan Av 1:25 says that a man cannot feed the child outside the [[sukkah]] but a woman can. The Mishna Brurah 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>