[Avodah] Uman/Leaving the women behind

[Chana Luntz]

I wrote:

  I read the Magen 
> Avraham 

On second thoughts I think the Magen Avraham is dealing with a different
question which is if he cannot sleep in the sukkah in the correct way
(ie with his wife), does that not by definition make the sukkah not
kosher even to be eaten in - and is concluding that a sukkah where he
could sleep alone is still considered a kosher sukkah since it is a form
of dira, even though he cannot sleep there with his wife (and may
himself therefore be patur).  I wasn't suggesting that the whole sukkah
was being rendered unkosher by the fact that a man could not eat with
his wife there (although it is an interesting thought) (not that the
Magen Avraham or the Rema mentions it, but a bocher could clearly dwell
in such a sukkah in the same way as he does throughout the year).  I do
also think that perhaps there may be a distinction between objective and
subjective - ie no man can sleep with his wife in a public sukkah might
be analogous to no man can eat with his wife in a sukkah to which women
are barred.  But that would not necessarily equate to a sukkah where a
man could eat with his wife, just his wife is not willing. 


>  Thanks. 
> > 
> > All the best from
> > --Michael Poppers via RIM pager
> >
> 

Regards

Chana