Succah 28b

סוכה כ״ח ע״ב

Sukkah 28b

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Topic

Who is obligated in סוכה (women, גרים, minors), and living in the סוכה as one's permanent home.

Overview

This amud opens by finishing a challenge from the previous amud. Why do we need a special הלכה to exempt women from סוכה, and a verse to include women in יום הכפורים, when general rules already seem to cover both? אביי and רבא each explain why the הלכה for סוכה was still needed. The גמרא then shows that the verse 'האזרח' includes גרים in סוכה, and that the יום הכפורים verse obligates women in תוספת עינוי. Next it explains that 'כל' includes only a minor who has reached חינוך, and that this is מדרבנן with the verse as an אסמכתא. It defines a child who 'no longer needs his mother', and explains the story of שמאי הזקן making a סוכה for a newborn as following שמאי's stricter view. A new משנה teaches that the סוכה is one's permanent home for seven days, that heavy rain lets one leave, and gives a parable explaining what rain means. The גמרא ends by teaching from תשבו כעין תדורו how to live in the סוכה, including that review of Torah happens there while deep analysis is done outside.

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The steps (26)

1. ChallengeThe Torah equates women to men for all punishments
2. Resolutionאביי: the הלכה was needed because סוכה is like normal dwelling
3. Resolutionרבא: the הלכה was needed to block a comparison to פסח
4. ChallengeIf the exemption is a הלכה, what does the verse add?
5. ResolutionThe verse comes to include converts
6. Challengeיום הכפורים is already covered by רב יהודה's rule
7. ResolutionThe verse obligates women in the added time of fasting
8. ChallengeMinors included by 'all' versus the משנה that exempts minors
9. ResolutionTwo kinds of minors
10. ChallengeBut חינוך is only rabbinic
11. ResolutionThe verse is just a hint
12. QuestionWhat is a minor who doesn't need his mother?
13. ResponseDefinition of רבי ינאי's school: using the bathroom alone
14. Responseרבי שמעון's definition: waking without calling for Mother
15. ChallengeEven older children call for Mother
16. ResolutionIt means calling over and over
17. ChallengeWhy tell a story that contradicts the rule?
18. ResolutionMissing words: שמאי is stricter
19. StatementNew משנה: the סוכה is your main home
20. StatementWhen rain lets you leave the סוכה
21. StatementThe parable of the servant and the jug
22. StatementMaking the סוכה your real home
23. QuestionWhat is the source for this?
24. ResponseLive in it the way you live at home
25. ChallengeBut רבא says deep study belongs outside
26. ResolutionReview inside, deep analysis outside