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

less than the minimum size of a succah and three walls remain, the part that
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measures less than a succah is posul. If the s'chach is very thin to the point that
there is a lot of air but there is not three tefachim [of air] in one place, it is valid,
[provided] that over all the succah provides more shade than sun, as long as there
is no place [where there is more sun than shade measuring] the size of his head
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and most of his body. 96

]20[ If one places posul s'chach at the edge of the succah, next to a wall, it is
valid as long as it measures less than four amos, even if it occupies the entire
length of the succah. [This is because] we have a tradition of a halacha l’Moshe
mi’Sinai that we say the wall is bent, meaning that we consider the [invalid]
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s'chach as if it is part of the wall and that it is bent above. If the roof is slanted
like ours are, it doesn’t invalidate the succah even if the invalid s'chach measures
more than four amos, as long as it doesn’t measure four amos across into the
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succah. If the roof bends up and down near a beam, even if it isn’t more than
three tefachim apart, since higher up they are more than three tefachim apart,
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they do not combine as we don’t say ‘chavut’ and ‘lavud’ to be machmir. The
poskim argue as some say we only say the wall bends if the wall reaches the

םדו רשב
rather a large space in the middle, but is has a minimum of seven by seven tefachim
connected at the sides, the entire succah is and sufficient walls to be considered a succah
valid, although one may not sit under the unto itself.
section without s’chach. (Tur) Most poskim
(Levush, Magen Avraham, Aruch Hashulchan) 95. According to some, his head or most
understand this to be true even if the inner of his body is sufficient. (Ran, Ritva)
section measures less than seven by seven
tefachim; nevertheless, the outer section of the 96. See above note 86 that the Rema rules
succah can combine with the inner one to like the Ran who maintains that although a
total seven tefachim. See, however, Bikurei succah is assessed as a whole, if an area
Yaakov who disagrees. measuring seven by seven tefachim provides
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more sunlight than shade, one may not sit in
94. For this gap of three tefachim has that section of the succah.
בפ
divided the succah into two separate
structures, and no section of it is valid unless it 97. Succah 17a. The mishna there teaches

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