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

s'chach; and some say that even if the wall doesn’t reach the s'chach we still say
that it is as if the wall extends upwards and then bends. 100 Even if one placed
invalid s'chach along the edges of all four walls, 101 if [each one] is less than four
amos, the succah is kosher in the middle provided the middle section has enough
s'chach for the minimum size for a succah. 102 If, however, it measures four amos,
then we don’t say the wall is bent; and since the wall isn’t bent, even though there
is enough kosher s'chach in the middle, the succah is nevertheless not valid as it
has no walls. The existing walls don’t help [to form] the succah since they are
distanced from the s'chach. If a succah has four walls and one places invalid

s'chach next to one of the walls, even if it measures more than four amos, the
succah is kosher provided that the valid s'chach measures the minimum size of a
succah, as it has three [other] walls. 103 However, he may not sit under the invalid
s'chach. 104

]21[ All of the above only applies 105 when [the posul s’chach] is at the side so
that it is possible to say that the wall is bent. However, in the middle of the
succah, if [the posul s’chach] is less than four tefachim it is batul to the s’chach and
is not considered s’chach which is posul and the succah is kosher, and one may
even sit under the posul [s’chach]. 106 If the posul s’chach measures four tefachim

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100. The Tur writes that even if the walls than the case of a small gap between the wall
only measure ten tefachim high, since we and the s’chach. If however the wall actually
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imagine that the walls extend upwards to the extends upwards but there is still a gap of less
s'chach, they can combine with invalid s’chach than three tefachim between it and the invalid
on the succah’s perimeter to create a bent s’chach, it can still be viewed as an extension
wall. Although the Taz defends the Tur’s of the wall. (Mishna Berura )
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position, arguing that this is no different than
if there was a gap of less than three tefachim 101. Succah 4a.
between the s’chach and the imaginary
extension, the Magen Avraham rules like the 102. i.e. it measures 7 tefachim by 7 tefachim
Ran who maintains that one cannot imagine
that the wall extends upwards and then bends 103. For we simply imagine that this wall
inwards as well, and is fundamentally different and the adjoining invalid s’chach as non-

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