Related%20passage for Sukkah 2:1

הַיָּשֵׁן תַּחַת הַמִּטָּה בַסֻּכָּה, לֹא יָצָא יְדֵי חוֹבָתוֹ. אָמַר רַבִּי יְהוּדָה, נוֹהֲגִין הָיִינוּ, שֶׁהָיִינוּ יְשֵׁנִים תַּחַת הַמִּטָּה בִּפְנֵי הַזְּקֵנִים, וְלֹא אָמְרוּ לָנוּ דָבָר. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, מַעֲשֶׂה בְטָבִי עַבְדּוֹ שֶׁל רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל שֶׁהָיָה יָשֵׁן תַּחַת הַמִּטָּה, וְאָמַר לָהֶן רַבָּן גַּמְלִיאֵל לַזְּקֵנִים, רְאִיתֶם טָבִי עַבְדִּי, שֶׁהוּא תַלְמִיד חָכָם וְיוֹדֵעַ שֶׁעֲבָדִים פְּטוּרִין מִן הַסֻּכָּה, לְפִיכָךְ יָשֵׁן הוּא תַּחַת הַמִּטָּה. וּלְפִי דַרְכֵּנוּ לָמַדְנוּ, שֶׁהַיָּשֵׁן תַּחַת הַמִּטָּה, לֹא יָצָא יְדֵי חוֹבָתוֹ:

If one sleeps under a bed in a succah he has not fulfilled his obligation. [This, if the bed is twenty handbreadths or higher, in which instance it is regarded as a tent, which acts as a partition between himself and the succah. (And the essential mitzvah of succah is eating, drinking, and sleeping therein.)] R. Yehudah said: We used to sleep under the bed before the elders, and they said nothing (in protest). [R. Yehudah holds that a temporary tent does not nullify a permanent one. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yehudah.] R. Shimon said: Once, Tevi the bondsman of R. Gamliel was sleeping under the bed, and R. Gamliel said to the elders: "Did you observe Tevi my bondsman? He is a Torah scholar and knows that bondsmen are exempt from the (mitzvah of) succah. [For women are exempt from time-based positive commandments; and (only) those mitzvoth binding upon women are binding upon bondsmen.] Therefore, he is sleeping under the bed." And as a matter of course, [even though he was speaking casually, expressing pride in his bondsman], we learned that one who sleeps under the bed (in a succah) has not fulfilled his obligation.

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