Sukkah, Daf Yod Het, Part 3

 

דרש רבי יהודה בר אלעאי: בית שנפחת וסיכך על גביו – כשרה. אמר לפניו רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי: רבי, פריש! כך פירש אבא. ארבע אמות – פסולה, פחות מארבע אמות – כשרה.

 

R. Judah b. Ila’i expounded: If [the roof of] a house is breached, and he placed skhakh over it, it is valid.

R. Ishmael son of R. Jose said to him, Master, explain [your words]. Thus my father explained it: If there are four cubits it is invalid, if less than four cubits, it is valid.

 

R. Judah b. Ilai expounds a halakhah which he subsequently explains to match that in the mishnah. If one opens a hole in the roof of his house, he can put skhakh there and have a valid sukkah as long as it is not more than four cubits between the skhakh and the walls of the house.

דרש רבי יהודה בר אלעאי: אברומא שריא. אמר לפניו רבי ישמעאל ברבי יוסי: רבי פריש! כך אמר אבא: של מקום פלוני – אסורה, של מקום פלוני – מותרת!

 

R. Judah b. Ila’i expounded: abruma is permitted.

R. Ishmael son of R. Yose said to him, Master, explain [your words]. Thus said my father, Those from such and such a place are forbidden, and from such and such a place are permitted.

 

This section is here only because the same rabbi is "expounding" and the same rabbi asks him to explain his words. Here he allows one to eat a small fish called the "abruma." The problem with buying the abruma is that it is sold in bunches and sometimes one can’t tell if there are forbidden foods (perhaps crustaceans) mixed in with them. R. Judah b. Ilai explains that it depends on where it comes from. Some places sell the abruma mixed in with all sorts of forbidden foods and from those places it is forbidden. Tomorrow’s section will continue discussing this fish.