[Avodah] Hashkafa Question on Sukkah Eating,

[Joshua Meisner]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Avraham spends the entire Chol haMoed avoiding the CHIYYUV of eating in
> the Sukkah. Instead of needing to find a sukkah, he adjusts his diet to
> eat foods that do not trigger an obligation. He has water, fruit juice,
> a hard boiled egg, but nothing to kovei'a any s'uda
>
> Yitzchak religiously washes twice a day and makes hammotzi and benches.
> He aims to get in 14 s'udos mamash over the course of sukkos over the
> course of the Chag
>
> But Yitzchak also eats several signifcant portions of food outside the
> sukkah in addition to these 14 times. Some of them would be mamash
> k'vias s'uda, but maybe he has a heter when traveling or at the office.
>
> Haskafically Avraham has srcupulously avoided a bittul aseh, but makes
> no brachah on hol Hamoed
>
> Yitzchak makes 2 brachos a day with a definite chiyyuv, but at least
> flirts with being mevateil the aseh once or twice a day because he has
> non-sukkah refreshments.
>
> Which approach is hashkafically superior?
>
> [One might equate this question with Sur Meira vs. Asei Tov]


Or, perhaps, the differences between Yaakov Avinu and Binyamin, Amram and
Moshe Rabbeinu, and Yishai/Kil'av and David HaMelech.  Keeping one's
garments clean makes one into an answer to an interesting trivia question,
but doesn't qualify one as being one of the all-time leaders of k'lal
Yisroel.

Joshua Meisner
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