Rosh Yeshiva Responds
Rabbi Linzer answers halakhic questions from rabbis and community members
I’m curious on your thoughts on eating in the sukkah on Simchat Torah. The Shulkhan Aruch OC 666:1 seems to say you need to remove pots and pans or make some kind of hekeir. What will suffice? Can someone just say before the meal “this is not for the sake of a mitzvah” and would that be okay or does it need to be literal hekeir. Thank you!
No, that isn’t enough. It’s true that in terms of ba’al tosif, absence of kavanah lehosif
Do the problems of using a metal frame, upon which sekhakh is placed, apply to a plastic frame?
Yes. But if there is no good alternative or solution there then you can be somekh on the many many Rishonim and poskim who say that the concern of ma’amid is not an issue and certainly not relevant to the issue of putting sekhakh on metal/plastic.
Rosh Yeshiva Responds
Rabbi Dov Linzer will be answering shailas from YCT rabbis and community members on video each week.