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Mishna: A sukkah made (of schach) like a wigwam or a lean-to;

Rabbi Eliezer disqualifies it since it does not have a roof.

The Chachomim permit it.

Summary

Question: What is the Chachomim’s reasoning?

Answer: A sloping ohel is considered an ohel, they disregard the slope. Since the wigwam is large enough to contain a 7x7 sukkah with a height of 10 tefachim , it is considered a proper sukkah.

In the Mishna it seems that Rabbi Eliezer is machmir while the Chachomim are meikil. But actually it can come out the other way too: According to Rabbi Eliezer, a pointed roof is not considered a roof at all. Thus if someone sleeps under a pointed roof in a sukkah he is still considered to be sleeping in the sukkah (see 9.1). But according to the Chachomim, a sloping ohel is an ohel and one cannot sleep under a pointed roof in a sukkah.

Abayye saw Rav Yosef lying in a killas chassanim canopy bed [with a pointed roof].

Abayye: You’re forsaking the Chachomim and following Rabbi Eliezer?

Rav Yosef: In a beraisa their opinions are switched.

Abayye: You’re forsaking the Mishna and following a beraisa?

Rav Yosef: The mishna follows the opinion of an individual, as we see in the beraisa (the beraisa is identical to our mishna but it is said by an individual):

Rabbi Nosson (he was from Bavel and the Av Beis Din in Rebbe’s generation. In many cases he had a different version of the mishna than Rebbi): A sukkah made (of schach) like a wigwam or a lean-to;

Rabbi Eliezer disqualifies it since it does not have a roof.

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