[Avodah] When no sukkah is available

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Thu Oct 7 02:57:55 PDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:44:28AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: Suppose a person is in a place where no sukkah is available or
: convenient, and he must choose between drinking water outside the sukkah,
: or not drinking the water at all. It is unquestionably muttar to drink
: the water outside the sukkah, but Chazal teach that the person who
: forgoes the water is meshubach.

R' R Yitzchak Eisenman spoke about this last Sukkos.

The praiseworthy thing is to bother to go in when you have a Sukkah
around.

Chazal were not saying that one going without snacks or drinks for hours
on ch"m if they wish to go on a trip is "meshubach". That's not what
YT means.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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