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Building the Sukkah


By Eliyahu Kitov

Reader Comments
Posted: Oct 4, 2006
Question
Thanks for the Info. Also can one construct a sukkah in the middle of the eight days of sukkot or must it be built beforehand?
Posted By Ben Abraham, nairobi, kenya

Posted: Oct 11, 2006
cool
Great cite helps us with our project
Posted By Anonymous, Salt Lake City, Utah

Posted: Oct 5, 2008
does the sukkah have to be all new?
hi. Great site with very helpful info.
Does the sukkah and especially the schrach have to be new for sukkoth or may it be used all year around for shade in the garden?
Posted By jerry

Posted: Oct 7, 2008
RE: Does the sukkah have to be all new?
If a sukkah is build for Sukkot, it is kosher, even if it is old.
If it was not built for Sukkot, it is kosher only if it was built within 30 days of the beginning of Sukkot.
If your sukkah was built more than 30 days ago, and was not built with the intention of using it for Sukkot, you can "renew" it and thereby render it kosher. All you need to do is put on new schach which will cover an area of 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches, and the entire sukkah is kosher (Shulchan Aruch Harav 636:1-2).
Posted By Eliezer Posner, Chabad.org, Brooklyn, NY

Posted: Oct 11, 2010
Sukkah walls
My daughter has a question at school:
WHY do you have to build the sides/walls of a sukkah first? I know you say here that you DO build them first but why?
Posted By Petal, Rananna, Israel

Posted: Oct 11, 2010
RE: Sukkah Walls
This law in found in the glosses of the RaMaH to the Code of Jewish Law 635. The issue is that one must put schach on his sukkah. When there are not yet any walls when he laid down the schach, he never placed schach upon a sukkah, as there was not yet anything to cover at that time. Thus, he never actually *made* a sukkah.
Posted By Menachem Posner for Chabad.org

 


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