Chapter 134 – Sukkah (temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot)

134.1) Choose a clean site and begin the building of the sukkah (temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot) immediately after Yom Kippur.

134.2) Make the walls compact and strong.

134.3) Make the roof of branches of trees, reeds, or other detached products of the soil.

134.4) Try not to lie upon the roof.

134.5) Lay the boughs so as to have more shade than sun.

134.6) If the roof is made of boards, they must jut out from the walls.

134.7) Do not erect a sukkah under the branches of a tree.

134.8) Raise the roof before covering it with branches.

134.9) You may borrow a sukkah.

134.10) A Jew should not cut the boughs for his sukkah himself, but should purchase them from another.

134.11) You may build a sukkah during Hol Hammoed (intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot).

134.12) You may not utilize the wood of the sukkah until after Simchat Torah (Day of Rejoicing with the Law).

134.13) Do not step upon the boards when dismantling the sukkah.

134.14) Do not write a verse of the Torah on an ornament of the sukkah.

134.15) Do not eat bread on the afternoon of the day before Sukkah.

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