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Chayei Adam - K’lal 147 - Laws of Sitting in the Succah

]12[ Whether or not one may shake off the rain which fell onto the s’chach on
Shabbos or yom tov is explained above in k’lal 67 siman 27. 73

]13[ According to the earlier authorities, based on the technical law of the
gemara, if one recited a beracha on the succah and then left to attend to his
needs, etc. and did not return immediately, in a way that he completely left, he
has taken his mind off the mitzva and when he later returns will be required to
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recite a new beracha, even if this occurs one hundred times a day. Yet, when he
does enter the succah, even if he does not eat there, he should recite a beracha,
because sitting or standing in the succah is [also] a mitzva, as he [lives in the
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succah] like he lives in his home, and this was the custom of the Gra. However,
this is only if he completely left [the succah], but if he left to go bring something,
he doesn’t need to say a new beracha because he hasn’t taken his mind on the
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succah. However, the prevalent custom is in accordance with the opinions that

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such a case one should say a beracha, and is able to put aside his discomfort and
so it is with other types of distresses which chooses to do so, fulfills the mitzva of succah
are mentioned in the coming pages that and can recite a beracha. Accordingly, even if
one is exempt from eating in the succah; one’s own succah is drenched by the rain, if his
nevertheless, on the first night, he is neighbor’s succah is dry, (because it was
obligated, as writes the Rema in siman 640, covered by a retractable roof) he should eat
according to many opinions. there. Although he might not be comfortable
These words here quoted by the doing so, since on the first night the
Chayei Adam do not appear in our version of exemption of a distressful situation is
the Elya Rabba. However, the Chayei Adam’s questionable, he should eat there, put aside
argument is clear and is echoed by many his personal discomfort, enjoy the mitzva, and
poskim, that although in rain, one is not recite a beracha. This is especially true since
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permitted to act stringently and eat in the eating in other people’s homes is anyway a
succah, this is because the exemption there is normal thing and is definitely not distressing
absolute (save for those who obligate him on in any absolute sense.
the first night, as above). Other forms of
distress, however, are subjective, as what one 73. There, the Chayei Adam discusses
person finds distressing is fine and moving muktza for the purpose of fulfilling a
comfortable for another. Accordingly, one who mitzva: Although one may move dirt in order

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