Related%20passage for Sukkah 2:3

הָעוֹשֶׂה סֻכָּתוֹ בְּרֹאשׁ הָעֲגָלָה אוֹ בְּרֹאשׁ הַסְּפִינָה, כְּשֵׁרָה, וְעוֹלִין לָהּ בְּיוֹם טוֹב. בְּרֹאשׁ הָאִילָן אוֹ עַל גַּבֵּי גָמָל, כְּשֵׁרָה, וְאֵין עוֹלִין לָהּ בְּיוֹם טוֹב. שְׁתַּיִם בָּאִילָן וְאַחַת בִּידֵי אָדָם, אוֹ שְׁתַּיִם בִּידֵי אָדָם וְאַחַת בָּאִילָן, כְּשֵׁרָה, וְאֵין עוֹלִין לָהּ בְּיוֹם טוֹב. שָׁלשׁ בִּידֵי אָדָם וְאַחַת בָּאִילָן, כְּשֵׁרָה, וְעוֹלִין לָהּ בְּיוֹם טוֹב. זֶה הַכְּלָל, כֹּל שֶׁנִּטַּל הָאִילָן וִיכוֹלָה לַעֲמוֹד בִּפְנֵי עַצְמָהּ, כְּשֵׁרָה, וְעוֹלִין לָהּ בְּיוֹם טוֹב:

If one makes his succah on top of a wagon [even though it moves and is not fixed in place], or on top of a boat [in the sea, where the wind buffets it], it is kasher. [For it is called a "dwelling" so long as it can withstand a normal wind on shore.] And it is permitted to go up to it on the festival. [This is stated (only) because of: "And it is not permitted to go up to it" (below)]. (If he makes his succah) on top of a tree, [making a place for it, with partitions and schach], or on top of a camel, it is kasher [on Chol Hamoed]; but it is not permitted to go up to it on the festival, [the rabbis having decreed against going up into a tree and against making use of it, lest he come to tear (from it)]. (If he made) two on a tree, and one by man, [i.e., If he supported most of the floor of the succah on a tree, and built around it two walls on top of the tree and one (man-made) on the ground, joining the floor of the succah to the middle of the wall built on the ground and raising the wall ten handbreadths higher (than the point of juncture)], or two by man and one in on a tree, it is kasher; but it is not permitted to go up to it on the festival. [Since, if it (the one wall on the tree) were removed, the floor of the succah would give, not being able to stand by the support of the ground walls alone, it is not permitted to go up to it on the festival, doing so constituting making use of the tree.] If he made three by man and one on a tree, it is kasher, and it is permitted to go up to it on the festival. This is the rule: Every succah which, if the tree were removed, could stand by itself, is kasher, and it is permitted to go up to it on the festival.

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