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A house keeps the weather out. A sukkah is defined by a roof that must let the rain fall through and the stars show. The covering has to have grown from the ground, been cut from it, and be good for nothing else. The one dwelling we are commanded to build is a dwelling built to be incomplete.
The Roof That Lets the Sky In
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About This Talk
Shofar, Sukkah v'Lulav chapter 5 lays out the whole law of s'chach - what may cover a sukkah and what may not. Three Torah conditions and two Rabbinic ones, boards and mats and bundles and metal, the thresholds of three handbreadths and four, shade that must exceed sun, and the quiet demand that the covering be made for the sake of shade and not simply found. The chapter draws the portrait of a dwelling whose holiness lives in what it deliberately leaves open.