[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 5:17pm EDT, Zev Sero wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
: >In any case, lulav, shofar and megillah are all mitzvos asei. Eating
: >outside of the sukkah is a lav.

: Huh?

: I think you mean that lulav and shofar are shev ve'al ta'aseh, while
: eating outside the sukkah would be kum va'asei, even though they wouldn't
: actually be *telling* us to eat.

As I wrote, I meant issur vs not doing a mitzvah, not the technical
labels of lav vs asei. But closer to that chiluq than that of sheiv
ve'al ta'aseh vs action. Becuase, as you yourself noted on Mon, Oct 05,
2009 at 5:22pm EDT:
: This isn't entirely satisfactory, though, because they *wouldn't* be
: telling us to eat chutz lasukah, they would just be forbidding us from
: eating in it.  We could still either fast, or eat only achilat arai;
: neither are prohibited min hatorah.  So it would still be a shev ve'al
: taaseh, sort of.  

There is an issur in eating outside the sukkah. Not picking up a lulav and
esrog when they're available is "only" oqeir mitzvah. No odor of issur,
and therefore more easily outweighed by issur melakhah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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