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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">From today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis</p>
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<p><strong>Q. I am visiting my parents for the first days of Sukkos and my in-laws for the last days. We hung up, in my parent’s
<em>Sukkah</em>, decorations that my children made in school. Can we take them down and bring them with us and hang them in my in-law’s
<em>Sukkah</em>?</strong></p>
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<p>A. Not only does a <em>Sukkah</em> have special holiness, but the decorations are infused with holiness as well. One may not remove
<em>Sukkah</em> decorations from a <em>Sukkah</em> for no reason, unless they were hung before Sukkos on condition that they should not become holy. (There is a specific wording that one must say to prevent them from becoming holy – “<em>aini bodel mayhen kol
bein hashmashos shel ches yamim</em>.” [I do not separate myself from them all the twilights of the eight days (of Sukkos).]) However, if one is concerned that they will be ruined or stolen, they may be removed (Piskei Teshuvos 638:7 – citing Rav Shlomo Zalman
Auerbach, <em>zt”l</em>). Similarly, Tzitz Eliezer (13:67) writes that if the intent is to hang them in another
<em>Sukkah</em>, this too is permitted. He explains that this is not considered “<em>bizui mitzvah</em>” (belittling of the
<em>mitzvah</em>), since the decoration is being transferred to another <em>Sukkah</em>. Rav Moshe Sternbuch,
<em>shlita</em> points out that one may not decrease the level of sanctity of the decorations. If the decorations were hanging from the
<em>s’chach</em>, they should be hung again on the <em>s’chach</em>, which has a higher level of holiness than the walls (Mo’adim U’zmanim 6:68).</p>
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