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Chayei Adam - K’lal 146 - Laws of the Succah

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also not considered a bundle unless it can be transported as tied, for example if
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it is tied at both ends or in the middle. If however it is only tied at one end, it is
not considered to be a bundle since it cannot be transported as such. For the
same reason, if the twenty five reeds are naturally connected it is not considered
a bundle even if he ties it at both ends because something bound by Heaven is
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not considered a bundle. If however he added even a single separate reed to
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the bundle, it is considered a bundle. Those people who cover their succah with
straw should be careful not to tie them up in bundles to prevent them from
blowing away in the wind as this is invalid by rabbinic decree.

]15[ Therefore, even a bundle which is tied in order to sell it by number and
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the buyer undoes it immediately after purchase, is not considered a bundle. In
our country they sell bundles of branches which are cut to spread out around the
house. Perhaps these are not considered bundles since it is not the normal way to
put them up to dry. On the contrary, if they dry out, they are worthless. 74

]16[ For this reason as well, since it is only rabbinically forbidden, if one already
covered his succah with bundles for the purpose of making a succah and then
afterwards realized [it is forbidden], he does not need to untie them and lift them
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up and place them back down, but rather it is sufficient to undo the bundles.
[This is because] since the only concern is that he might make a mistake and sit
under s'chach which was only placed there to dry out. Now that he unties them,
he demonstrates that he knows the halacha of ta’aseh v’lo min ha’asui, and this is
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sufficient. If however he places the bundles to dry out and not for shade, even if

םדו רשב
69. The gemara (Succah 13b) teaches that R’ Yehoshua). Although the Rif and Rosh cite
a teepee-like tent formed from straw may be both explanations, the Rema rules like the
used as s’chach, if one unties it at its pointed latter opinion. This is probably because this
roof. Although it was also attached at the opinion fits in with the undisputed ruling that
bottom, either it is also only kosher provided a bundle made to sell in numbers is also not
that the bottom weave is also undone (Rav considered a bundle.
Papa) or, since it is not easily transported as is,
does not qualify as a bundle (Rav Huna son of 70. If it is tied in the middle in a

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