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The following is form today's OU Kosher Halacha Yomis.</div>
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<p><strong><strong class="ContentPasted0">Q. I am visiting my parents for the first days of
<em class="ContentPasted0">Sukkos</em> and my in-laws for the last days. We hung up, in my parent’s
<em class="ContentPasted0">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 class="ContentPasted0">Sukkah</em>?</strong></strong></p>
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<p class="ContentPasted0">A. Not only does a <em class="ContentPasted0">Sukkah</em> have special holiness, but the decorations are infused with holiness as well. One may not remove
<em class="ContentPasted0">Sukkah</em> decorations from a <em class="ContentPasted0">
Sukkah</em> for no reason, unless they were hung before <em class="ContentPasted0">
Sukkos</em> on condition that they should not become holy. (There is a specific wording that one must say to prevent them from becoming holy – “<em class="ContentPasted0">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, zt”l). Similarly, Tzitz Eliezer (13:67) writes that
if the intent is to hang them in another <em class="ContentPasted0">Sukkah</em>, this too is permitted. He explains that this is not considered “<em class="ContentPasted0">bizui mitzvah</em>” (belittling of the
<em class="ContentPasted0">mitzvah</em>), since the decoration is being transferred to another
<em class="ContentPasted0">Sukkah</em>. Rav Moshe Sternbuch, <em class="ContentPasted0">
shlita</em> points out that one may not decrease the level of sanctity of the decorations. If the decorations were hanging from the
<em class="ContentPasted0">s’chach</em>, they should be hung again on the <em class="ContentPasted0">
s’chach</em>, which has a higher level of holiness than the walls (Mo’adim U’zmanim 6:68).</p>
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Professor Yitzchok Levine<br>
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