daf bit: Sukkah 10
Feb. 13th, 2014 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioA mishna on today's daf teaches: if one spreads a sheet over the roof of
his sukkah because of the sun, or under it because of falling leaves, or
if he spreads a sheet over the frame of a four-poster bed (in the sukkah),
the sukkah is invalid. The g'mara picks up on the phrase
"because of falling leaves" and argues that, because we are given a
reason, then a sheet used to beautify the sukkah is not being used for
that reason and so it's valid. So you can't put up a sheet to block
falling leaves, but you can put up a beautiful sheet to decorate your
sukkah and if it happens to block falling leaves, that's different.
(10a)
However, note that this isn't the current practice, at least as it has been taught to me: you can't have a barrier between the roof of the sukkah, which must be made of things that once grew from the ground (wood, bamboo, evergreen cuttings, etc) and you -- no tents, sheets, umbrellas, tarps, etc. So this is what the g'mara says here, but (a) it may say other things elsewhere and (b) the g'mara isn't necessarily the last word on anything.
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Date: 2014-02-20 04:14 pm (UTC)