<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Avraham spends the entire Chol haMoed avoiding the CHIYYUV of eating in<br>
the Sukkah. Instead of needing to find a sukkah, he adjusts his diet to<br>
eat foods that do not trigger an obligation. He has water, fruit juice,<br>
a hard boiled egg, but nothing to kovei'a any s'uda<br>
<br>
Yitzchak religiously washes twice a day and makes hammotzi and benches.<br>
He aims to get in 14 s'udos mamash over the course of sukkos over the<br>
course of the Chag<br>
<br>
But Yitzchak also eats several signifcant portions of food outside the<br>
sukkah in addition to these 14 times. Some of them would be mamash<br>
k'vias s'uda, but maybe he has a heter when traveling or at the office.<br>
<br>
Haskafically Avraham has srcupulously avoided a bittul aseh, but makes<br>
no brachah on hol Hamoed<br>
<br>
Yitzchak makes 2 brachos a day with a definite chiyyuv, but at least<br>
flirts with being mevateil the aseh once or twice a day because he has<br>
non-sukkah refreshments.<br>
<br>
Which approach is hashkafically superior?<br>
<br>
[One might equate this question with Sur Meira vs. Asei Tov]</blockquote></div><br>Or, perhaps, the differences between Yaakov Avinu and Binyamin, Amram and Moshe Rabbeinu, and Yishai/Kil'av and David HaMelech. Keeping one's garments clean makes one into an answer to an interesting trivia question, but doesn't qualify one as being one of the all-time leaders of k'lal Yisroel.<br>
<br>Joshua Meisner<br>