Los paquetes de paja y los paquetes de madera y los paquetes de zradin [tipos de juncos, utilizados como alimento para animales cuando están húmedos, y como combustible, cuando están secos] no deben usarse como schach [cuando están atados. No porque sean pasul; pero a veces uno viene con su bulto en el hombro y lo coloca encima de la succah para que se seque—y luego decide usarlo como schach. Pero las Escrituras dicen: "harás"—y no de lo que ya está hecho con lo que es pasul (ver 1: 4). Y esto ni siquiera está hecho para dar sombra sino para secar, de modo que esté hecho "con lo que es pasul"]. Y todos ellos [que aprendimos a ser pasul como schach]—si los desató, son kasher. Y todos son kasher como paredes. [Para "succah" connota schach y no paredes.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Sukkah
וחבילי זרדין – kind of reeds, and while they are still moist, animals eat them, and when they dry out, they are readied for kindling.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
Introduction
This mishnah deals with material that fits all of the criteria brought up in yesterday’s mishnah it comes from the ground, it is detached from the ground and it is not receptive to impurity and yet still cannot be used as skhakh.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Sukkah
אין מסככין – when they are tied together, and not because they are invalid, but sometimes a person comes with his package on his shoulder and he raises and places it on the Sukkah to dry and he decides to use it as S’khakh/festive covering for the Sukkah, but the Torah stated, “you shall make/hold” (Deuteronomy 16:13) and not from what is already made, with that which is invalid, and this is not made even from the shade, but rather to dry out and it is already made with something invalid.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
Bundles of straw, bundles of wood, and bundles of brushwood they do not use them as skhakh. The Talmud Yerushalmi explains that these bundles cannot be used as skhakh because it might look as if he is putting them up there for storage or to dry them out and not to use them for shade.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Sukkah
וכולן – those invalid things that we taught regarding the festive covering for the Sukkah.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
But all of them, if he untied them, are valid. However, if he unties them, it no longer looks like he put them up there to dry or to store them and therefore the sukkah is valid.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Sukkah
כשרים לדפנות – that Sukkah implies the festive covering, but not the walls. Therefore, “After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your vat, you shall hold the Feast of Booths…’, the festive covering of the Sukkah is implied and not the walls.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
And they are all valid for the walls. Everything that is invalid for the skhakh is valid for the walls. When it comes to the walls all we are concerned about is that there are walls we are not at all concerned with the material of the walls. We should note that the word “sukkah” itself means “to cover” and the word “skhakh” is from the same root as the word for “sukkah.” A “sukkah” is defined by its skhakh but not by its walls.
