[Avodah] Sukka must be kosher for sleeping?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:35:49PM +1100, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Now, returning to mitzta'eir... Creating happiness doesn't necessarily
>> remove the tza'ar. RMMS (the last LR) writes WRT R' Nachman's "mitzvah
>> gedolah lihyos besimchah tamid" that even during times of aveilus,
>> a person should simultaneously feel simchah. This is why HQBH created
>> within us the capacity for ambivalence.
>
> It's a Zohar: "Chedva tekia beliba'i misitra da, uvchiya tekia beliba'i
> misitra da".

Lamah li Zohar, sevara hi? Who has not experienced ambivalence?

BTW, the gemara too, the case of the aveil who inherited a fortune has
to make a berakhah on each.

Now, apply that concept back to Sukkah.

If pushing yourself to be happy can at best create a shallow happiness
in addition to not really removing the tza'ar.... Is a person no longer
mitzta'eir because he buried his discomfort?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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