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stops, we don’t trouble him to go back out to the succah until alos ha’shachar. If
he was already sleeping, there is no need to wake him up, until he wakes up on
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his own. It appears to me that the same is true here, that even if he was sleeping
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inside because of the rain, but only if he already fell asleep, but if he didn’t fall
asleep and it stopped raining, he must sleep in the succah, just like one who
didn’t go to sleep until night, [that he] must go out to the succah. 50

]9[ All of this [only applies] during the rest of Succos; when if one does not
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want to eat bread, he can choose [not to] and he can therefore completely
exempt himself from the succah by eating only fruits. [This is true] even on yom
tov when he is obligated to eat bread, nevertheless, if he wants he can eat only a
k’zayis or a k’beitza [an amount] for which he is exempt from [eating in the]
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succah. However, on the first night of Succos, he is obligated by Torah law to eat

םדו רשב
48. The gemara (Succah 29a) says that if alos ha’shachar, since he is still in the middle
one left the succah on account of rain and of his sleep.
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continued sleeping inside, he need not return
to the succah even after the rain has finished, 49. Meaning, that he started out sleeping
unless he wakes up and it is after alos inside, just like one who began eating inside,
ha’shachar, implying that, (a) if he wakes up in as above, siman 7.
the middle of the night, he can continue
sleeping inside, and (b) there is no need for 50. If, however, he didn’t go to sleep yet,
others to wake him, even if it is already past he must relocate to the succah (Magen
alos ha’shachar. The geonim however have a Avraham). See, however, Pri Megadim who
different reading of the gemara which teaches argues that if he has already changed out of
that he need not return until it gets light, his clothes, relocating would be considered
meaning alos ha’shachar, which implies that sufficient distress to exempt him, even if he
hasn’t yet lay down in bed, as would someone
perhaps others should wake him up after alos who has already gotten into bed wearing his
ha’shachar. Although the Shulchan Aruch
appears to rule stringently like the reading of clothes. The Bikurei Yaakov disagrees and
contends that this is not sufficient cause for
the geonim, the Rema follows our version of exemption. See also Machatzis Hashekel who
the gemara. Many contemporary poskim writes that if he is still fully dressed, he must
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argue that nowadays when most don’t awake relocate to the succah.
at the crack of dawn, one may resume
sleeping indoors, even if he wakes up after 51. The mishna (Succah 27a) teaches that

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