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And R' Meir concedes that if there is between one board and another board a gap the complete width of a board, then one places fit roofing from the waste of the threshing floor and the winepress, and the sukka is fit.
The Talmud clarifies: Granted, according to the one who said: Both along the side and in the center a sukka is rendered unfit with a measure of 4 cubits of unfit roofing, it is due to that reason that the sukka under discussion is fit, as none of the boards is 4 cubits wide. However, according to t
Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua, said: Here, we are dealing with a sukka that is exactly 8 cubits, i.e., 48 handbreadths, wide, and one began placing the roofing from the side. And he places a four-handbreadth board and then 4 handbreadths of waste, and another board and waste, and a board and waste,
The result is that the sukka has two 4-handbreadth stretches of waste in the middle of the sukka, totaling 8 handbreadths. In that case, there is the minimum measure of fit roofing required for fitness of a sukka in the middle, and everyone agrees that the unfit roofing in the rest of the sukka can
§ Abaye said: If there is space measuring 3 handbreadths in a large sukka, which is defined as one larger than 7 by 7 handbreadths, and one diminished the space, whether he did so with branches, fit for roofing, or whether he did so with metal skewers, unfit roofing, it is an effective diminutio