8.4 - Sukkah Daf 10 B (2 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 Summary We Learned: Ornaments do not reduce the size of a sukkah (It doesn’t make a sukkah possul if ornaments hang down below 10 tefachim. It also doesn’t make the sukkah kosher if ornaments hang down below 20 amos). Rav Ashi: Ornaments do not reduce the height of the sukkah but they reduce if they’re on the sides (if the ornaments cause the sukkah to be less than 7x7 tefachim, it becomes possul). Rav Ashi’s slave, Minyamin, hung his wet shirt to dry over the sukkah. Rav Ashi said to him, “Take it off so that they don’t say ‘things that are mekabel tumah can be used for schach’.” Challenge: But everyone could see that it’s wet and was only placed there to dry? Resolution: Rav Ashi was saying that it should be removed as soon as it dries. (While the shirt is wet, the sukkah is not possul. This indicates that a kosher sukkah with kosher schach is not disqualified by possul schach which is placed above it). We Learned: Ornaments that are hanging 4 tefachim below the schach: Rav Nachman: It is kosher. Rav Chisda and Rabbah bar Rav Huna: It is possul. Rav Chisda and Rabbah bar Rav Huna once stayed at the home of the Reish Galusa. Rav Nachman set them up to sleep in such a sukkah, they accepted it. Rav Nachman asked them if they retracted their above position. They replied in the negative, the reason they slept in this sukkah was because they were busy with the mitzvah* of visiting the Reish Galusa and were absolved from the mitzvah of sukkah. ________ * Tosfos explains that if they were to seek a sukkah they wouldn’t be able to visit the Reish Galusa. One who is busy with a mitzvah is absolved of other mitzvos only if the first mitzvah precludes him from accomplishing the second mitzvah. 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