Chapter 135 – Dwelling in the Sukkah (temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot)

135.1) Dwell in the sukkah (temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals)) for seven days.

135.2) Keep the sukkah clean.

135.3) Eat bread in the sukkah on the first night there.

135.4) Eat there the second night as well.

135.5) Upon returning to the sukkah after synagogue, immediately recite kiddush.

135.6) If several heads of families are in one sukkah, each should recite the kiddush independently of the others.

135.7) On the remaining nights, you are not required to have meals in the sukkah.

135.8) Sleep in the sukkah,  even if you just take a nap.

135.9) If it rains, you do not have to stay in the sukkah.

135.10) Even a slight rain is enough not to sleep in the sukkah.

135.11) Anyone exempt from remaining in the sukkah and remains anyway is considered an ignoramus.

135.12) When you eat a regular meal in the sukkah, say the benediction Leshev basukkah.

135.13) Say the same benediction if you eat a meal in a friend’s sukkah.

135.14) If you forget to say the benediction and then remember after you have started eating, say it then.

135.15) Women do not have to dwell in the sukkah.

135.16) A sick person does not have to dwell in a sukkah.

135.17) After the first night if you are uncomfortable or cold, you do not have to sleep there again.

135.18) Wayfarers do not have to eat in a sukkah.

135.19) Travelers on a religious mission do not have to sleep in a sukkah if they have trouble finding one.

135.20) Watchmen of gardens, orchards, and other produce must make a sukkah.

135.21) Those who make wine in the house of a non-Jew do not have to fulfill the precept of the sukkah.

135.22) Those who work and live in a store must observe the precept of the sukkah.

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