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

one only recites a beracha when eating, because they hold that the beracha
recited when eating covers everything. Nevertheless, it is not proper to sit there
without making a beracha. Therefore, it is proper that when returning home from
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shul, one should make a beracha on [food made of] the five grains. Even though
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he only eats a k’zayis, since he is eating a fixed [snack] he can make a beracha of
leisheiv ba’succah, and he should not [repeat] the beracha later when he eats.

]14[ According to all opinions, if he goes to shul and then returns to the succah,
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he must recite another beracha. However, if he remains in the succah all day,
even if he eats ten times, he doesn’t say a new beracha, and even if he remains in
the succah for all seven days, he doesn’t say a new beracha, since he didn’t take
his mind off [of the mitzva]. 80

]15[ If one fasts on Succos, it would appear to me that if he does not intend to
eat bread at all that day, everyone would agree that every time he leaves the
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succah [and returns] he must say a new beracha. [This is because] it is only if he

םדו רשב
includes going out to get food or seforim so him in the mitzva and beracha, according to all
that he can eat or learn in the succah. opinions. The Bikurei Yaakov also recommends
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Leaving for any other reason would constitute eating immediately in order to recite a
an interruption in the mitzva and would beracha, and the Mishna Berura advises doing
necessitate a new beracha, at least according so as well. However, as the Chayei Adam
to those who require one any time one enters himself writes below, one who said a beracha
a succah. of leisheiv ba’succah when eating a snack, and
remained in the succah, should be careful not
77. Since by sitting in the succah, he to recite another one when he eats his meal,
fulfills a mitzva, which, according to several later on. (See below notes 82-83. )
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opinions requires a beracha upon entering. As
a rule, a mitzva should be accompanied with 78. Meaning a snack which must be eaten
the appropriate beracha, as Chazal mandated in a succah.

them to infuse the mitzva with a measure of 79. The Magen Avraham writes that going
kedusha. As such, the Chayei Adam to shul to daven is considered an interruption
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recommends eating foods which he would be in his mitzva of succah and warrants a new
required to eat in a succah, thereby obligating beracha upon return, even if he only went for

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