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# One is exempt from sleeping in the [[sukkah]] if he is genuinely afraid of terrorism. <ref> Rav Avigdor Neventzal in his Mishnah Brurah Biytizchak Yikare on Rama 639:2 </ref> | # One is exempt from sleeping in the [[sukkah]] if he is genuinely afraid of terrorism. <ref> Rav Avigdor Neventzal in his Mishnah Brurah Biytizchak Yikare on Rama 639:2 </ref> | ||
# Some Chasidim have the practice of not [[sleeping in the Sukkah]]. <ref> see Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XXIX, pp. 211-219 quoted by [http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/92423/jewish/Sukkos.htm#footnote8a92423 chabad.org]</ref> | # Some Chasidim have the practice of not [[sleeping in the Sukkah]]. <ref> see Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XXIX, pp. 211-219 quoted by [http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/92423/jewish/Sukkos.htm#footnote8a92423 chabad.org]</ref> | ||
==If it Rains== | |||
# If it rains one is exempt from sleeping in the sukkah.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 639:7</ref> | |||
# Even after it stops raining one doesn't have to go back into the sukkah even if one wakes up in the middle of the night since that is considered a pain to have to move into the sukkah in the middle of one's sleep.<ref>Shulchan Aruch OC 639:7. Mishna Brurah 639:40 quotes a machloket achronim if a person woke up because of the rain and moved inside but before he fell asleep it stopped raining whether he has to return to the sukkah. The Rama 639:7 clarifies that once he is exempt because of the rain he can sleep until he wakes up in the morning and he doesn't have to get someone to wake him up in the morning so that he can sleep in the sukkah. </ref> Similarly, if when it was raining in the night a person put up a shlock on top of the sukkah he can sleep in the sukkah with the shlock on top and even if it stops raining he can continue to sleep there since it would be a pain to have to remove it. However, if it is easy to remove the shlock then he should do so. <ref>Mishna Brurah 639:41</ref> | |||
# If a person knows that it is going to certainly rain but has not started to rain, some poskim hold that one is exempt at this point since it will be a pain to have to wake up and move one's bed out of the sukkah when it starts to rain, while others hold that he is obligated until it starts to rain.<ref>Dirshu 639:40 cites Rav Nissim Karelitz (Chut Shani Sukkot p. 247) as holding that one is exempt and Rav Elyashiv (Ashrei Haish 3:26:30) held that one was obligated until it started to rain.</ref> | |||
# A man who has a baby that wakes up in the middle of the night and his wife needs him to take care of the baby is exempt from sleeping in the sukkah.<ref>Chazon Ovadia (Sukkot p. 200). Shevet Hakehati 1:198 writes that the man who needs to take care of the baby in the night is exempt from the sukkah even before the baby cries because if he sleeps in the sukkah he won't hear the baby. His ruling is based on Shulchan Aruch 640:3 that those who are taking care of the sick are exempt from the sukkah.</ref> | |||
==Sleeping in a small Sukkah== | ==Sleeping in a small Sukkah== | ||
# One is obligated to sleep in a small [[Sukkah]] even if that means bending or folding one’s body and there’s no exemption of being uncomfortable in the [[Sukkah]] (like there is if it rains). <Ref>Rama 640:3, Chazon Ovadyah pg 194) </ref> | # One is obligated to sleep in a small [[Sukkah]] even if that means bending or folding one’s body and there’s no exemption of being uncomfortable in the [[Sukkah]] (like there is if it rains). <Ref>Rama 640:3, Chazon Ovadyah pg 194) </ref> | ||
