Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6, 7 Scribes, merchants, rabbis and other people engaged in the business of Heaven are exempt from the obligation to perform certain commandments because they’re fulfilling other commandments. Are they obligated in sukkah? Must we …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 6 Are we obligated to fulfill the commandment to “dwell in the sukkah” while we are engaged in fulfilling a different commandment? Is a groom obligated to recite Shema on his wedding night? Is a …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 4, 5 When do we revise legal rulings based on remote possibilities, and when not? Rabbi Meir is not concerned that the wineskin will burst before we have a chance to tithe it, but he …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 3, 4 Split level roofing on a sukkah. Building a sukkah on a camel, tree, wagon or ship. Can an animal count as the wall of a sukkah? The rule of typical/atypical winds and the …

Topics covered: Chapter 2, Mishna 1, 2 Beds, tents, bulls and the extreme measures taken by the rabbis and a few zealous families to ensure that the “waters of purification” were drawn by children who were guaranteed never to have …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 13, Chapter 2, Mishna 1 Mats for sleeping or roofing on the sukkah? Who was Rabbi Hiyya? Sleeping under the bed in the sukkah, and Rebbi’s brilliant and respected slave, Tavi.

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 11 Sukkahs compared to porticos, teepees, tents and lean-to’s. What if you intend to do it, but you miss it? What if you simply can’t build a sukkah?

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 11 In seeking to understand the law of a breached roof from Rabbi Yehuda bar Elai as he learned the law from his father, we digress to learn another teaching with the same provenance regarding …

Topics covered: Chapter 1, Mishna 11 A lesson in the Ten Commandments and roadside ethics from Reb Yoel Kahn. A tribute to the late great Jackie Mason. How does the width of a hole in the roofing of a sukkah …