[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Mon Oct 5 11:18:25 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:06:45PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
: No it's being mevatel the aseh of "basukos teishvu shivas yamim".  Look 
: at the Rambam's heading to hilchos [shofar, lulav v']sukkah.  He lists 
: no lavim.

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.

I think that with this change of terminology, my chiluq stands.

The question still remains one of telling people to perform one issur
for the sake of avoiding another. That is different than lulav, where
Anshei Keneses haGedolah told us not to perform a chiyuv.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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