[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

[T613K at aol.com]

I kept waiting for someone to say what I thought was obvious, but no one  
did, so I will.
 
You build the sukka /before/ Shabbos, and when you build it, you obviously  
make an eruv between your house and your sukka -- which are either adjacent 
or  very close to each other.  People always had an eruv around their yard 
or  between neighbors' houses.  Indeed, in olden times and even fairly 
recently  in the shtetel, several families used to share one oven and one 
courtyard  and had an eruv to allow them to go get their cholent pot from the 
common  oven.  The sukka was close and the eruv was common, that's my only  
point.  It's not so much halachic as it is sociological.
 
In contrast, the esrog and lulav, if carried on Shabbos, might be carried  
quite far, to shul or to the rabbi's house -- well outside the eruv you 
might  have made between your house and your sukka or between your house and 
your  neighbor's house.  

I think it very likely that Chazal worried about the lulav and esrog, and  
not about the sukka, simply because of the way people lived -- they 
responded to  the facts on the ground, you might say.
 
I will now ask this question:  what if you had an eruv between your  house 
and your sukka, and the eruv broke on Shabbos, say, because of a  storm?  In 
that case, I think the halacha /would/ be like the halacha of  lulav and 
esrog on Shabbos, namely, Shabbos would override Sukka.   (And you would not 
be required to forego your Shabbos meals.)   Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
 
--Toby Katz
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