Amount of Rain that Exempts from Sitting in the Sukkah | Sheilot

Amount of Rain that Exempts from Sitting in the Sukkah

Question

If it rains during the festival of Sukkot, from what amount of rain is one exempt from sitting in the sukkah?

Answer

Regarding eating in the sukkah, if it rains to the extent that a person would leave the house if such an amount of rain entered there. Or if there are foods that would spoil in such rain.

Regarding sleeping in the sukkah, any amount of rain exempts from sleeping.

Answered 18 September 2022 How answers are reviewed
Rabbi Israel Cohen
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Rabbi Israel Cohen
Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source

Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, Siman 639, Seif 5 and 7.

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