Today's Mishnah Yomi
Sukkah 1:11 - 2:1
The Mishnah Yomi for Sunday, March 25, 2029 is Sukkah 1:11 - 2:1
Mishnah 1
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Mishnayos Sukkah Perek 1 Mishnah 11
סוכה פרק א׳ משנה י"א
Bartenura
כמין צריף. שאין לה גג, וראשי הדפנות נוגעות זו בזו מלמעלה [כזה], ומתרחבים והולכים מלמטה:
או שסמכה. שהטה ראשי הקנים על הכותל והולכים בשפוע למטה לארץ:
מפני שאין לה גג. אינו ניכר מהו גג ומהו כותל. דאהל משופע לאו שמיה אהל אלא א״כ יש לו גג טפח. והלכה כר״א:
מחצלת של קנים וכו׳ במחצלת קטנה כו״ע לא פליגי דסתמא לשכיבה ואין מסככין בה. כי פליגי בגדולה, תנא קמא סבר סתם גדולה לסיכוך עבידא וסתם קטנה לשכיבה. וה״ק מחצלת גדולה סתמא לסיכוך, ואם פירש שעשאה לשכיבה מקבלת טומאה ואין מסככין בה. ולסיכוך מסככים בה, הכי קאמר, ומחצלת קטנה סתמא לשכיבה, ואם פירש שיהא לסיכוך מסככין בה:
רבי אליעזר אומר אחת גדולה ואחת קטנה. סתמן לשכיבה. ועשאה לשכיבה דקאמר, כלומר עשויות הן מתחלתן סתמא לשכיבה, הלכך אף הגדולה מקבלת טומאה ואין מסככין בה. ואם פירש שהיא לסיכוך מסככין בה. ואין הלכה כר״א:
Mishnah 2
Mishnayos Sukkah Perek 2 Mishnah 1
סוכה פרק ב׳ משנה א׳
Bartenura
הישן. לא יצא ידי חובתו – and as long as the bed will be ten handbreadths high, for then it is considered a tent and it is found that the tent interrupts between him and the Sukkah. But the essential Mitzvah of Sukkah is eating, drinking sleeping.
נוהגים היינו כו' – for he holds that a temporary tent does not come to cancel out a permanent tent. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
עבדים פטורים מן הסוכה – for it is a positive time-bound commandment for which women are exempt, and any commandment for which a woman is liable, a slave is liable.
ולפי דרכנו למדנו – even though he did no specify other than mere profane talk (see Talmud Sukkah 28a), that he was praising his servant, we learn that someone who sleeps under the bed, etc.
הישן. לא יצא ידי חובתו. ובלבד שתהא המטה גבוה עשרה טפחים, דאז היא חשובה אהל ונמצא אהל מפסיק בינו לבין הסוכה. ועיקר מצות סוכה אכילה שתיה שינה:
נוהגים היינו כו׳ דקסבר לא אתי אהל עראי ומבטל אהל קבע. ואין הלכה כרבי יהודה:
עבדים פטורים מן הסוכה. דמצות עשה שהזמן גרמא נשים פטורות, וכל מצוה שהאשה חייבת בה עבד חייב בה:
ולפי דרכנו למדנו. אע״פ שלא אמר אלא לשיחת חולין בעלמא, שהיה משתבח בעבדו. למדנו שהישן תחת המטה כו׳:
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כמין צריף – which has no roof and the heads/tops of the walls touch each other from above [like the upside down letter “V”] and become distanced from each other from below.
או שסמכה – or inclined the heads of the poles/reeds on the wall and they continue downwards slanting towards the ground.
מפני שאין לה גג – and it is not recognized what is a roof and what is a wall, and a slanting tent is not called a tent, unless it has a roof of a handbreadth, and the Halakha is according to Rabbi Eliezer [who declares it invalid].
מחצלת של קנים וכו' – a small mat, everyone does not argue that if it is merely for lying, they do not cover it with festive covering. But they argue regarding a large one. The first Tanna/teacher thinks that a mere large mat is made for covering and a mere small mat is made for lying. And this is how it should be understood: A large mat is made for covering, and if he expressed that he made it for lying, it [is liable] to receive ritual defilement and we don’t make the festive covering of the Sukkah with it, but for the festive covering, we cover the Sukkah with it. This is how it should be understood – that the mere small mat is used for lying, but if he expressed that it is for the Sukkah covering, he covers the Sukkah with it.
רבי אליעזר אומר אחת גדולה ואחת קטנה – undefined for lying, but if he made it for lying, as he stated, that is to say, they were made at their outset as undefined for lying, therefore, even the large one receives ritual defilement and we don’t cover [the Sukkah] with it. But if he expressed that it is for the festive covering [of the Sukkah], we do cover [the Sukkah] with it. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.