[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R"n Chana Luntz wrote:
> I think that the mitzvah that Sukkah most closely resembles
> (and I think this is born out in many discussions) is that
> of Tzitzis.  Tzitzis too is an aseh, that one does not have
> to do, there is no requirment to wear a four cornered
> garment, one can get by without one, but if one wants to
> wear a four cornered garment it must have tzitzis.  

I'd like to introduce, into this discussion, a big difference between my understanding of sukkah-after-the-night (hereinafter referred to simply as "sukkah") and my understanding of tzitzis.

One can do tzitzis on two levels. In all cases, there is clearly never a chiyuv to wear a beged which needs tzitzis, but if one chooses to wear such a beged, he is obligated to make sure there is tzitzis on it. If one has a wool or linen beged, and puts tzitzis on it, and he chooses to wear it, he fulfills a d'Oraisa. If the beged is another fiber, such as cotton, I understand that many poskim hold that it's only a d'Rabanan. I will not get into whether this sort of mitzvah is called "chiyuvis" or "kiyumis" or "machsheres" or whatever; my point is that it is the same in all cases, and the only difference is d'Oraisa or d'Rabanan.

One can also do sukkah on several levels. In all cases, there is clearly never a chiyuv to eat in the sukkah. But if one chooses to eat a keviyus seudah (which we will not define here), then he is obligated to do it in the sukkah, and he will fulfill a d'Oraisa for it. If one chooses to do something other than eating a keviyus seudah (such as drinking a glass of water, or learning, or shmoozing) he is definitely *not* obligated to do it in the sukkah, but he can choose to do it in the sukkah anyway. And if he does so, he will fulfill a d'Oraisa for this too. (Or, at least, I've never heard anyone say this to be merely d'rabanan.)

So we have an interesting difference between tzitzis and sukkah: The first can be done in two ways; they are both the same in the chiyuv/kiyum area, but one is d'Oraisa and the other is d'Rabanan. The second can also be done two ways, but while one is chiyuv and the other is kiyum, both are d'Oraisa.

Akiva Miller

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