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size=2><BR>R' Richard Wolpoe asked:<BR>> Why do we sit in the Sukkah in the
Golah on Sukkot but do<BR>> not take the Lulav etc. on Shmini Atzeret? This
question<BR>> has bothered me since I was a kid</FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=2>R' Akiva Miller replied:<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><BR>>>Shmini Atzeres in chu"l is safek Chol Hamoed. Sukkah is
d'Oraisa on Chol HaMoed, so we go safek l'chumra on Shmini Atzeres. Keep in mind
that on Shmini Ateres, we only go to the Sukkah for things which are chiyuvim on
Chol Hamoed, i.e., seudas keva (which includes large mezonos
snacks).<<<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>My husband has a simpler answer. We don't do last-day-chol-hamoed
things that would openly contradict Shmini Atzeres -- e.g., lulav and
esrog. But sitting in the sukka is OK because people might go outside to
eat in a in a shady booth even if it wasn't any kind of holiday.</DIV>
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