[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:23:14PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
: Basically.  There's a big difference between not eating and not eating a 
: seudah.  The Rambam is clear that it's perfectly feasible to go the 
: whole week of Sukkos without a seudah and without eating in the sukkah.  
: If Hazal had thought eating in a sukkah on Shabbos was problematical 
: they could have forbidden it, whereas it would have required a much 
: higher threshhold to require fasting on Shabbos.

I was thinking more technically, that since it's framed as a lav, beis
din simply lacked the legislative power to override it. You pulled my
head out of the sand to see that lemaaseh BD could have accomodated
both the issur and protect hotza'ah.

But the result would be a sheiv ve'al ta'aseh not to eat shalosh se'udos
nor make qiddush. The se'udos are deOraisa, based on "ikhluhu hayom ki
Shabbos hayom..." (Shemos 16, quoted at the bottom of Shabbos 117b).
So as you framed it, it would be a gezeira against "zakhor" to preserve
"shamor". Perhaps the answer is that it shows you that shevisas melakhah
isn't sufficiently more important -- if it's more important at all --
than the mitzvos asei of Shabbos.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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