Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part 3

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part 3   Introduction Today’s section deals with R. Yose the Galilean’s opinion that one cannot write a valid divorce document, a get, on something that is alive. אמר מר,...

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part 2

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part 2   Introduction Today’s section continues with the issue of using an animal to form the wall of a sukkah.   בין למאן דאמר שמא...

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part 1

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Daled, Part One   Introduction Today’s daf continues with the sugya from the previous daf. R. Judah had said that one could use an animal as the wall of a sukkah because he is not concerned lest the animal die. But R. Judah doesn’t...

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Gimmel, Part 6

  Sukkah, Daf Kaf Gimmel, Part 6   Introduction Yesterday’s section ended with a difficulty. Earlier in the daf Abaye had said that R. Meir was concerned lest the animal died. But in solving two mishnayot he said that R. Meir was not concerned lest the...

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Gimmel, Part 5

Sukkah, Daf Kaf Gimmel, Part 5   Introduction In the previous parts of this daf we learned that R. Meir forbids one from using something that is alive as the wall of a sukkah (and from other uses as well). Abaye said that R. Meir is concerned lest the animal die,...