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Beraisa: Psal [it means schach] extending outside of a sukkah is considered an extension to the sukkah [it is kosher].

Ulla: It refers to schach that sticks out behind the sukkah.

Rabbah and Rav Yosef both said: It refers to schach that projects in front of the sukkah.

Rabbah bar bar Chana quoting Rabbi Yochanan: It refers to a sukkah that is mostly properly shaded, but a small area has ‘more sunshine than shade’.

Summary

Rabbi Oshaya: It refers to a small sukkah [precisely 7x7 tefachim] in which less than 3 tefachim are covered with possul schach. (Here ‘psal’ means possul schach).

Extends ‘outside of the sukkah’ means that it “goes out” from the status of kosher schach.

Rav Hoshaya: Airspace is worse than possul schach (14.6) but even airspace of less than 3 tefachim does not invalidate such a sukkah. [So the law of the beraisa is superfluous].

Rabbi Abba: Possul schach less than 3 tefachim is considered schach: It is counted as part of 7 tefachim and one may sleep underneath it. Airspace is not considered schach. Although it is counted as part of 7 tefachim, one may not sleep underneath it.

Challenge: How can airspace be counted as part of the sukkah while one cannot sit underneath it? Is there any other case similar to this?

Rabbi Yitzchok ben Elyashiv: There is. Mud that is soft enough to pour.

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