Sukkah, Daf 4

Welcome to the Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Lewis Warshauer looks at Masechet Sukkah Daf 4.

Continuing a discussion begun on the previous page, the Gemara discusses the possible remedies for a sukkah that exceeds the maximum permissible height of twenty cubits: what is effect of raising the flooring or lowering the roofing. As far as sukkah that is lower than the permissible minimum of ten handbreadths–what circumstances make it possible to achieve the minimum height? Another consideration: the fitness of a sukkah made by erecting structures inside of or on top of an existing sukkah. The page ends with a teaching that the ten handbreadth minimum height of a sukkah is derived from the Torah’s stated measurements of the ark of the covenant and its cover.

The opening and closing music for this podcast is Ufros from The Epichorus album One Bead.

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Rabbi Lewis Warshauer

Rabbi Lewis S. Warshauer teaches adult education seminars in Judaism. He has served as adjunct rabbi at Congregation Habonim in New York City and was a teaching fellow in the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Kollot/Voices of Learning program. Rabbi Warshauer served as assistant rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1997 to 2000. He received his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1997, and was a recipient of a Wexner Graduate Fellowship.As part of his rabbinical training, he studied at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles and the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. He also studied at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem.

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