[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
> Eating outside of the sukkah is a lav.

R' David Riceman wrote exactly what I was thinking:
> No it's being mevatel the aseh of "basukos teishvu shivas yamim".

R' Micha Berger responded:
> Correct what I said from the formal asei vs lav to chiyuv vs
> issur. That is the whole gezeirah shavah tes-vav tes-vav --
> the first night parallels a chiyuv of akhilas matzah, the
> rest of Sukkos it parallels not eating chameit. The mitzvah
> is not to eat outside the Sukkah, rather than a mitzvah to
> eat within it.

This is a very interesting analysis of that gezera shava. I've never heard it before, and I'm curious if it is original or if you've heard/learned it somewhere. I must admit that it does explain away one of my long-standing questions.

Namely: The Mechaber 639:2 codifies that "one who is machmir on himself and won't even drink water outside the sukkah - haray zeh meshubach." This is based on the Mishna Sukkah 2:5, about amoraim who went out of their way to eat non-required things in the sukkah. But if so, then the Mechaber should have been phrased differently. He should have written about one who is machmir to go to the sukkah even to drink water. I never understood how the transition was made from the Mishna's case of drinking water *in* the sukkah, to the Mechaber's case of *not* drinking water *outside* the sukkah. But with RMB's focus on seeing it as an issur, it begins to make sense. Thank you.

In any case, regardless of whether eating outside the sukkah is a "lav" or merely "assur", it is certainly in a different category than lulav, shofar, and megillah. Thank you.

Akiva Miller

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