[Avodah] Sukkah on Shabbos

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R D Reisman:
> I haven't looked at the tshuva you allude to, but I wonder about this.
> azal compare someone eating outside to a dog; but certainly no one I
> now has a visceral response to someone eating an ice cream cone while
> trolling, or to someone eating at a picnic. So I wonder whether the
> alacha was codified when people ate meals only in their homes except
> n extreme situations.

«Hazal compare someone eating outside to a dog;»

IIRC hazal protested eating in a SHUQ [but lav davka all outdoors]

EG See SA Orach Hayyim 193:3 about eating on a camel whilst traveling.

The issue aiui was eating in the public market place, not about eating
inthe great outdoors. Thus a picnic table should be fine

[NB: I'm not specifically addressing how this etiquette works ha'idna;
rather the p'shat in Hazal»

Tangentially:
I would also suspect that sipping water or a soft drink would also be
OK even in the Shuq.

Raya:
I sometimes give a shiur in the beis knesses where a big sign says no
food or drink allowed. So I asked my LOR if water was OK and he said OK.
Shma mina: that sipping water whilst public speaking does not constitute
zilzul beis knessess

KT
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