Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Daf Yomi - Sukkah 18 - Kasha from my 11 Year Old

We learned in Mishna Berura last week that open space is stricter than ineligible s'chach. If there are three tefachim of air space on a sukkah, the sukkah is disqualified, yet four tefachim (or four amos according to one opinion) of ineligible s'chach is necessary to invalidate a sukkah.

This week, we learned in halacha that a shofar with a hole in it (open space) is valid (there are some conditions to this), yet if one would close it up with material dissimilar to that of a shofar, it would disqualify the shofar. Here we see that ineligible material is stricter than open space (the hole)?

I'm impressed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Impressive for an 11 year old. The problem with the Shofar is the sounding of the Kolos through a medium other than pure Shofar material. This is assumed to produce a different kol and is no good.

Anonymous said...

open space is not more strick Unless it does the entire length. therefore there would have to be a whole the entire length of the sofer to disqualify it