Está permitido usar tablas como schach. Estas son las palabras de R. Yehudah. R. Meir lo prohíbe. [Con tableros del tamaño de cuatro anchos de mano, que (tamaño) se considera "un espacio de importancia", todos están de acuerdo en que es pasul. Con menos de tres, todos están de acuerdo en que es kasher (porque en ese caso son como juncos). ¿Dónde se diferencian? (Con tablas) de tres a cuatro anchos de mano. R. Yehudah sostiene que dado que ese no es "un espacio de importancia", no decretamos (en contra de él) para que no se siente bajo el techo de su casa. Y R. Meir sostiene que dado que deja el estado de lavud (ver 1: 1), decretamos (en contra), para que no diga: "¿Qué diferencia hay si uso estos como schach o si me siento debajo del techo de mi ¿casa?" La halajá está de acuerdo con R. Yehudah.] Si colocó sobre ella una tabla que es más ancha que cuatro anchos de mano, es kasher, siempre que no duerma debajo de ella.
Bartenura on Mishnah Sukkah
מסככין בנסרים דברי ר' יהודה – with boards that have four [handbreadths] which is the measure of an important place, according to everyone, it is invalid. Less than three [handbreadths], everyone says, is valid, for it is considered like reeds. Where they disagree is from three until four. Rabbi Yehuda holds that since they lack the measurement of an important place, we should not make a decree lest a person sits underneath the ceiling of the house. But Rabbi Meir holds that since they go outside from the law of a legal fiction of considering separated parts as united, if the gap is less than three handbreadths, we make a decree lest a person should say, what does it matter to me with the S’khakh of these, what difference does it make if I sit under the ceiling of my house. But the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
Introduction
This mishnah continues to discuss things that meet the requirements for skhakh as listed in mishnayot 3-4 (comes from the ground, is detached from the ground and is not receptive to impurity) but are still not valid to use as skhakh.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
They may make skhakh out of wooden planks, the words or Rabbi Judah. Rabbi Meir forbids. Rabbi Judah holds that one can use wooden planks whereas Rabbi Meir holds that these cannot be used. In the Talmud they debate how wide these planks are some say that they are four handbreaths wide and others say that they are only three handbreadths wide. All agree that planks thinner than three handbreadths can be used. In any case, Rabbi Meir rejects the use of broad wooden planks because the sukkah will look too much like a house. Rabbi Judah accepts them and seems to simply be unconcerned if the sukkah looks like a house. We have seen that Rabbi Judah allows very strong and stable structures to be valid sukkot above in mishnah one he allowed a sukkah that was over 20 cubits high. We shall also see Rabbi Judah with a similar type of opinion in 2:2.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Sukkah
If one places on top of [the sukkah] a plank four handbreadths wide, it is valid provided that he does not sleep under it. This section goes according to Rabbi Meir who forbids using wooden planks. Rabbi Meir admits that one wooden plank, even if it were wide, would not invalidate the entire sukkah, just the area that it actually covers. Therefore, he shouldn’t sleep (or eat) underneath this plank, but he may utilize other areas of the sukkah.
