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will eat bread that those poskim hold to recite the beracha on the main part of
the mitzva and exempt the secondary aspects [of it], but if he doesn’t eat, this is
irrelevant. It appears to me that the same is true if one leaves the succah after
eating and returns but doesn’t eat until the night, and will [anyway] leave again
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before the night to go to shul. In such a case, everyone would agree that he
must say a beracha. Similarly, one who goes to his friend’s succah must recite a
beracha there, whether he eats there or not. 83

]16[ If one forgot to recite the beracha until the middle of eating, he should
recite it when he remembers, and even if he has already eaten, because
technically he must recite a beracha even if he doesn’t eat. 84

]17[ Since we learn [the obligation to] eat in the succah on the first night from
[the mitzva of] matza, one should not eat until it is certainly night, and he should
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be careful to eat before midnight. Similarly, on erev Succos, one should not eat
bread after chatzos, nor [should he eat] other satiating foods from nine and a half
hours [into the day], just like on erev Pesach. 86

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Shabbos. (See O. C. 288.) Since he won’t be 82. The Chayei Adam extends the above
eating, he should recite a beracha upon ruling of the Taz to include one who has either
entering, following with those opinions who eaten or plans to eat, but not on this visit to
require a beracha upon entry, as above. the succah; since he will not be saying a
Furthermore, even according to Rabeinu Tam beracha of leisheiv ba’succah in the context of
who maintains that a beracha is only recited a meal on this particular visit to the succah, he
when eating, this is because everything else is should say the beracha when he enters. See,
considered secondary to eating, but if he does however, the Shulchan Aruch HaRav who
not eat, he should say a beracha for sitting in writes that the beracha he recites in the
the succah, and the same applies to one who morning includes every other visit to the
is not fasting but doesn’t eat a fixed meal succah that day (unless he sits down to
(Taz). See however Maamar Mordechai who another meal but only if it is to the same
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disagrees and holds that according to Rabeinu succah). Although the Mishna Berura cites this
Tam, who the halacha follows, one may only ruling of the Chayei Adam without comment,
recite a beracha when eating a meal. it seems that the custom is not so. One should
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