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Mishnah: A sukka that is meduvlelet and whose shade exceeds its sunlight is fit. A sukka whose roofing is thick like a house of sorts, even though it is so thick that the stars cannot be seen from within it, is fit.
Talmud: The Talmud asks: What is the meaning of meduvlelet? Rav said: It means an impoverished sukka, i.e., a sukka whose roofing is sparse, although at no point in the roofing is there a gap of 3 handbreadths. And Shmuel said: It means that the roofing is aligned with one reed ascending and one
The Talmud explains: Rav taught the first clause in the Mishnah as one halakha, and Shmuel taught that clause as two halakhot. Rav taught one halakha: The halakha of a sukka meduvlelet. And what is a sukka meduvlelet? It is a sparse sukka. Nevertheless, as long as the shade exceeds the sunlight th
Abaye said: They taught that a sukka with two layers of roofing is fit only in a case where there is not a gap of at least 3 handbreadths between the top and bottom layers. However, if there is a gap of 3 handbreadths between them it is unfit. Rava said: Even if there is a gap of 3 handbreadths bet
Rava said: From where do I learn to say that when there is a handbreadth of width in its roof, we say that the principle lower and cast applies, and when there is not a handbreadth in its roof, we do not say that the principle lower and cast applies? Rava learns this from the halakha of impurity imp