תלמוד על ברכות 6:1

MISHNAH: Rebbi Eliezer said, a person is obligated to eat fourteen meals in the sukkah, one during daytime and one in the night. But the Sages are saying, there is no fixed amount except only for the night of the first day of the holiday⁷⁶The start of the holiday of Tabernacles, when the benedictions for the sukkah have to be recited. At all other times one may not eat a meal outside the sukkah, but no meals are prescribed.. In addition, Rebbi Eliezer said, one who did not eat on the first day of the holiday makes it up in the night of the last day of the holiday⁷⁷The holiday is seven days, with a full holiday at the beginning; also the obligation of sukkah is seven days (Lev. 23:34,42). The eighth day is a separate holiday (Lev. 23:36, Num. 29:35). R. Eliezer counts the meal in the evening of the Eighth Day as making up for the missed one on the First day even though it cannot be valid in the sukkah.. But the Sages are saying, this cannot be made up, and on this it was said⁷⁸Eccl1:15., what is distorted cannot be fixed, and a deficiency cannot be filled.