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

older than this, his father is obligated to train him to do mitzvos and even others
are forbidden to give [an older child] food to eat outside of the succah. 115

]26[ The laws of kiddush and the berachos of shehecheyanu, and over the
succah on the first and second nights, are explained in the halachos of kiddush,
k’lal 79. 116

]27[ The custom, on the rest of Succos, is to recite leisheiv ba’succah after
ha’motzi, before tasting from the bread and beginning the meal. 117 That is,
according to the custom that we only recite a beracha when eating. [Therefore]
the beracha on the succah is not a hefsek between ha’motzi and eating because it
is like all other needs of the meal which are not [considered] an
interruption. 118 On Shabbos and yom tov when we recite kiddush, we make the
beracha after kiddush. 119 Yet, according to the basic law that one should recite

םדו רשב
the succah from a slightly younger age, since night (in chutz la’aretz) as well, and there is no
he is less dependent on his mother (Elya need for a new fruit or new item of clothing as
Rabba, Bikurei Yaakov). See also Aruch one should do on Rosh Hashana (see above
Hashulchan who writes that the custom is to end of k’lal 139 and notes there). However
be lenient with this in colder climates where unlike the first night of Succos where the
severe weather conditions are detrimental to a shehecheyanu is recited not only over the yom
child’s health. tov but over the mitzva of succah as well, the
second night it only applies to the yom tov.
115. Chayei Adam’s note: See the laws Accordingly, while on the first night of Succos,
of educating a child, k’lal 66. There one should recite the beracha or leisheiv
the Chayei Adam devotes an entire k’lal to the before the shehecheyanu (since it applies to
obligations and halachos of training children both), on the second night, the order is
in the performance of mitzvos and restrictions reversed. See there, however, that the matter
of the Torah. is actually the subject of debate, where some
don’t reverse the order. Both customs are
116. There, he explains that unlike on valid.
Shabbos, kiddush on yom tov is only a rabbinic
enactment. He also explains that the beracha 117. See further regarding the beracha of
of shehecheyanu is recited on the second leisheiv on the first night of Succos, when it is

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