7.5 - Sukkah Daf 09 B (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 Rava: If a tree is above a sukkah but its foliage is scanty and allows ‘more sunlight than shade’, it is kosher. After the gemara challenged this statement, it was resolved by explaining that we’re discussing a case where the branches are lowered and mixed in with the schach. Summary Challenge: If the branches were mixed in with the schach it’s superfluous to tell us that it’s kosher? Resolution: You might think there would be a gezeirah forbidding a case of mixed branches lest one come to permit cases of unmixed branches as well. Rava tells us it’s permissible and there is no gezeirah. Challenge: There is already a mishna that teaches this: “If one trained vines to cover a sukkah, even if he covers it with schach, it is possul. If there was more schach than vine, it is kosher. If the vines are cut loose from the ground, they are kosher schach”. This mishna must be discussing a case where the vine is mixed in with the schach (7.4), so why is Rava’s teaching necessary? Resolution: From the wording of the mishna it might seem that such an arrangement is only kosher b’dieved, once it was done. Rava teaches that such schach is l’katchila , there is no problem to lower a small amount of branches and mix them in with the schach. 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