14.5 - Sukkah Daf 17 A (14 lines Dn)

Today’s learning sponsored by Sponsor a day's learning (thousands of minutes!) for only $72 click here https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/ODUwOTU Mishna: If the schach is 3 or more tefachim away from the sukkah walls, it is possul. If part of a house’s roof caved in and schach was placed there: if it is 4 amos away from the walls, it is possul. Summary Rabbah: I encountered the Rabbanan of the Beis Medrash and heard them saying: Empty space disqualifies a sukkah with 3 tefachim. Possul schach disqualifies a sukkah with 4 tefachim. Rabbah: I said to them: How do you know this law about empty space? Isn’t it from our mishna? But from our mishna it seems that possul schach disqualifies a sukkah only with 4 amos! Rabbah: They said to me: Forget about that case. Rav and Shmuel both explained our mishna as being based on the principle of dofen akumah. Rabbah: I said to them: If so, what if there were a strip just a bit less than 4 tefachim of schach possul running down the middle of the sukkah and adjacent to it there was an empty space of just under 3 tefachim, it would be kosher. But if that empty space were now filled with iron rods, it would become possul. But airspace is worse than schach possul (since it disqualifies a sukkah with only 3 tefachim). So how can it be that in this case airspace would be more lenient than schach possul ? This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate