Study Sukkah folio 25A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
only within an area of two beit se’a, the area necessary to grow two se’a of produce? Two beit se’a was the area of the Tabernacle courtyard; it is also the area within which the rabbis permitted one to carry on Shabbat in a case where there are partitions but the area was not originally enclosed f
The Talmud answers: The reason that it is permitted to carry only if the enclosed area is less than this size is because it is a residence whose uses are for the open air beyond it, i.e., it is used by guards who are watching the fields beyond it rather than as an independent residence. And the hala
Come and hear proof from another source: With regard to one who established his Shabbat residence on a mound that is 10 handbreadths high and its area is anywhere from 4 cubits to two beit se’a; and similarly, with regard to one who established his Shabbat residence in a natural cavity of a rock th
Mishnah: Those on the path to perform a mitzva are exempt from the mitzva of sukka. The ill and their caretakers are exempt from the mitzva of sukka. One may eat and drink in the framework of a casual meal outside the sukka.
Talmud: The Talmud asks: From where are these matters derived that one who is performing a mitzva is exempt from the mitzva of sukka? A baraita states that it is written in the Torah that one recites Shema at the following times: “When you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when y