[Avodah] Sukka must be kosher for sleeping?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 08:00:25AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: If you can physically fit into a small sukah and there is  just enough room 
: for one person to sit, is it still a kosher sukah --  even though there is 
: not enough room to lie down in it?  

They sell pop-up and other phone-booth shaped sukkos, with hechsheirim.
Beis Hillel holds rosho verubbo.

: Would sleeping with your head in the sukah and your feet outside count as  
: "sleeping in the sukah"?  Somehow, I don't think so.

But I think you're blurring cheftzah and gavra. A sukkah can be kosher if
it's large enough to hold me. That's different than whether I satisfied
the requirement of entering the sukkah.

: Maybe relevant, maybe not:  I notice that my Lub neighbors will eat in  the 
: sukah even when it's pouring rain -- when to me it seems a shailah if you  
: would be allowed to make a bracha "leshev basukah" and there's no mitzva at 
: all...

Ashk make berakhos on minhagim. So, if they feel it's a bonofide minhag,
not just a hanhagah tovah...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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