[Avodah] Sukka on Shmini Atzeres?

[Micha Berger]

The gemara (Sukkah 47a) tells you what to do: meisiv havu yasvei, berukhei
lo berikhei. Open and shut, no? Sit in the Sukkah without a berakhah.

Except...

The Minchas Elazar punctuates differently, "Meisiv havu yasvei, berukhei
lo berikhei? -- Could it be that for sitting, they would have you sit, but
for making the berakhah, that would not have you make the berakhah?" Which
kind of fits the repeated language, as it does fit that kind of bitmiyah
interpretation. Although the doubling is also present in a hava amina of
"berukhei nami mevorkhnan".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger             The greatest discovery of all time is that
micha at aishdas.org        a person can change their future
http://www.aishdas.org   by merely changing their attitude.
Fax: (270) 514-1507                   - Oprah Winfrey