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Rabbi Eliezer: If one didn’t eat a meal in the sukkah, he can make it up Shemini Atzeres.

Summary

Challenge: How can he make it up? With bread? So he’s eating the Shemini Atzeres meal.

Resolution: He makes it up by eating delicacies, [meats, stuffed vegetables and other delicacies]. (Tosfos learns from this that the 14 meals of Rabbi Eliezer need not be full meals with bread).

(Even according to the opinion that one must eat bread on yom tov, but not chol hamoed and if you omit yaaleh v’yavo you need not repeat birkas hamazon.)

We also learned a beraisa to this effect: One who missed a yom tov meal can make it up on Shemini Atzeres by eating a delicacy (meat or fish; something that is not a mere nosh).

The administrator of King Agripa asked Rabbi Eliezer: It is my custom to eat only one meal a day. Is that enough for me on sukkos too?

Rabbi Eliezer: Every day you add many dishes as appetizers (a rich man eats after his meals to incite him to eat more). Can’t you add one dish in honor of your creator?

He asked another question: Someone like me who has two wives; one in Tveria and one in Tzipori, am I permitted to have two sukkos in those two cities?

Rabbi Eliezer: No. If one leaves from one sukkah to the other, his mitzvah goes lost.

Beraisa: Rabbi Eliezer: One cannot move between two sukkos (because a sukkah must be built for all 7 days) and one cannot build a sukkah on Chol Hamoed (for the same reason).

Chachomim: It is kosher even if it was created in middle of Yom Tov

Even Rabbi Eliezer agrees that one can rebuild a collapsed sukkah on Chol Hamoed.

Question: What is Rabbi Eliezer’s reasoning?

Response: It states “Build a sukkah for seven days”: it must be a sukkah that stands seven days. (The Chachomim agree with this understanding of the verse regarding schach. Accordingly, leaves that would wither in less than 7 days are not kosher for schach).

Chachomim: It means that the mitzvah lasts seven days but not the sukkah.

Everyone agrees that it can be rebuilt.

Challenge: Isn’t that obvious?

Resolution: The beraisa is teaching that it’s not considered a new building but a continuation of the original sukkah.

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