[Avodah] The sukkah on Shemini Atzeret controversy

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/6dpqu3g


Arguments about eating in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret outside of 
Israel have a long and somewhat baffling history.[1] While not the 
only example of practice in opposition to the Shulchan Aruch, it 
appears to be among the most argued. The gemara, Rambam, the Tur and 
the Shulchan Aruch, written in many locales, all seem to be as 
unambiguous as possible in requiring one to eat in the sukkah. The 
Gaon, incensed by the spreading Chassidic custom to eat outside the 
sukkah, perhaps lemigdar miltah, went so far as to mandate sleeping 
in the sukkah on the night of shemini atzeret, in opposition to the 
Maharil, the Magen Avraham and normative custom.

See the above URL for the rest of this article. YL
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