Study Sukkah folio 17A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Mishnah: If one distanced the roofing from the walls of the sukka at a distance of 3 handbreadths the sukka is unfit, because 3 handbreadths of open space, even adjacent to the walls, render the sukka unfit.
In the case of a house that was breached, creating a hole in the middle of the roof, and one roofed over the breach, if from the wall to the roofing there are 4 or more cubits of the remaining original roof, it is an unfit sukka. If the roofing is less than 4 cubits from the wall, the sukka is fit,
And likewise, in the case of a courtyard that is surrounded on 3 sides by a portico, which has a roof but no walls, if one placed roofing over the courtyard between the different sides of the portico and the roof of the portico is 4 cubits wide, the sukka is unfit. Similarly, a large sukka that wa
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Why do I need all these cases based on the identical principle of curved wall? The Talmud explains: It is necessary to cite all the cases, as, if the Mishnah had taught us only the case of the house that was breached, I would have said that the principle of curved wall app
And if the Mishnah taught us only these two cases, one would have said that the principle of curved wall can apply because all of their roofing is fit roofing, and the preexisting roof of the house and the portico is unfit only due to the principle: Prepare it, and not from that which has already b