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and they each said: Take them up to the sukka.
And when they gave R' Tzadok less than an egg-bulk of food, he took the food in a cloth and he ate it outside the sukka and did not recite a blessing after eating it. The Talmud infers: Had they given him an egg-bulk of food, he would have been required to eat it in a sukka. Let us say that this is
Mishnah: R' Eliezer says: A person is obligated to eat 14 meals in the sukka over the course of the 7 days of the festival of Sukkot, one during the day each day and one at night each night. And the Rabbis say: There is no quota for the number of meals, and one may choose whether or not to eat any
And furthermore, R' Eliezer said: One who did not eat a meal on the evening of the 1st day of the Festival should compensate with a meal on the evening of the last day of the Festival, on the 8th Day of Assembly, despite the fact that he will not eat it in the sukka. And the Rabbis say: There is no
Talmud: The Talmud asks: What is the rationale for the opinion of R' Eliezer, who mandates eating 14 meals in the sukka? The Talmud answers that he derives his opinion from the verse: “In sukkot shall you reside” (Leviticus 23:42), which the rabbis interpreted to mean: Reside as you dwell in your