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Related for Sukkah 2:7

מִי שֶׁהָיָה רֹאשׁוֹ וְרֻבּוֹ בַסֻּכָּה, וְשֻׁלְחָנוֹ בְתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי פּוֹסְלִין, וּבֵית הִלֵּל מַכְשִׁירִין. אָמְרוּ לָהֶן בֵּית הִלֵּל לְבֵית שַׁמַּאי, לֹא כָךְ הָיָה מַעֲשֶׂה, שֶׁהָלְכוּ זִקְנֵי בֵית שַׁמַּאי וְזִקְנֵי בֵית הִלֵּל לְבַקֵּר אֶת רַבִּי יוֹחָנָן בֶּן הַחוֹרָנִי, וּמְצָאוּהוּ שֶׁהָיָה יוֹשֵׁב רֹאשׁוֹ וְרֻבּוֹ בַסֻּכָּה, וְשֻׁלְחָנוֹ בְתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת, וְלֹא אָמְרוּ לוֹ דָבָר. אָמְרוּ לָהֶן בֵּית שַׁמַּאי, מִשָּׁם רְאָיָה, אַף הֵם אָמְרוּ לוֹ, אִם כֵּן הָיִיתָ נוֹהֵג, לֹא קִיַּמְתָּ מִצְוַת סֻכָּה מִיָּמֶיךָ:

If one's head and most of his body were in the succah, and his table in his house — Beth Shammai rule that it is pasul, and Beth Hillel, that it is kasher. [The halachah is in accordance with Beth Shammai, whether it is a large succah and he is sitting at the entrance of the succah with his table in his house, or it is a small succah, which does not accommodate his head and most of his body — both are forbidden — a decree, lest he "be drawn" after his table.] Beth Hillel said to Beth Shammai: "Did it not happen that the elders of Beth Shammai and the elders of Beth Hillel went to visit R. Yochanan b. Hachorani and found him sitting with his head and most of his body in the succah and his table in the house, and they said nothing to him?" Beth Shammai rejoined: "Can you offer proof from there? They did, indeed, tell him: 'If this is how you have (always) deported yourself, you have never fulfilled the mitzvah of succah in all of your days!'"

Tosefta Sukkah

The sick and their attendants are exempt from observance of the festival ; and not only one who is dangerously ill, but even one who has a headache or a pain in his eyes. Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel said: Once I was in Csesarea with pain in my eyes, and R. Jose allowed me and my attendant to sleep outside the sukkah. Rabbi said, "Once I and Rabbi Elieser ben Rabbi Zadok were visiting Rabbi Yohanan ben Nuri at Beth-Shearim, and we were eating figs and grapes outside the sukkah, and Rabbi was saying, 'Every sukkah which is not four cubits square is not valid.'" But the sages say, "If it contains space for the head, and the greater part of the body only, it is valid." There is a story of the men of Jerusalem that they were lowering their beds through windows which were ten handbreadths high, and were sleeping under them. A lath roof prolonged beyond the walls of a sukkah is to be judged like a sukkah.
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