Study Sukkah folio 28A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: There is a difference between the case of the shutter and the case of the sheet. There, in the case of the shutter, where he negates it by shuttering the window, it is considered part of the building and it is therefore prohibited. However, here, in the case of the sheet, where
The Talmud relates a similar incident. A baraita states: There was an incident involving R' Eliezer, who stayed in the Upper Galilee, and the people there asked him 30 halakhot in the halakhot of sukka. In response to 12, he said to them: I heard an answer from my teachers, and he related what he
They said to him: Are all the matters that you know only from what you heard? Don’t you say any matters on your own? He said to them: Now you forced me to say a matter that I did not hear from my teachers, as I must describe my character traits and the manner in which I conduct myself. In all my
Apropos the character traits of R' Eliezer, the Talmud cites character traits of his teacher. The rabbis said about Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai, the teacher of R' Eliezer: In all his days he never engaged in idle conversation; and he never walked 4 cubits without engaging in Torah study and without d
The Talmud continues to praise the rabbis. A baraita states: Hillel the Elder had 80 students. 30 of them were sufficiently worthy that the Shekhina should rest upon them as it did upon Moses our teacher, and 30 of them were sufficiently worthy that the sun should stand still for them as it did for