Heard on the heights
The sukkah on the roof of my employer's building has been packed all day, as people try to sneak in a bite before the rain returns. While munching pretzels there, I happened to mentioned that someone had told me that his/her family's sukkah had fallen down, so they'd had to eat by the neighbors. Then I heard what I'd said: " . . . eat by the neighbors"?!!! Methinks I've been working for the frummies for too long. :)
posted by Shira Salamone at 4:25 PM
6 Comments:
Shira,
Well, in defense, that was okay, as long as the neighbors house he was eating at wasn't the neighbor you were talking to. :)
Even more silly, if your Sukkah falls down, you rebuild it, you just don't redecorate it.
Thanks for the permission slip. :)
"if your Sukkah falls down, you rebuild it, you just don't redecorate it." Yes, but it fell on Yom Tov, not Chol HaMoed. One isn't permitted to build on a Yom Tov, as far as I know. and they needed a sukkah in which to eat on Yom Tov.
Shira,
Ah, that's not good. That makes more sense... still not okay to "eat by" anyone. :)
Too true. You can eat *with* someone, or even *at* someone's home, but eating *by* someone is a Yiddishism, from the German "bei" (pronounced "by"), or so I've heard. My English is being corrupted by "Yeshivish." Oy. I edit documents for a living, so I'm going to have to watch out for such grammar gaffes.
The schach (roof) blew off our sukkah on first day Yom Tov one year, so I went to ask my LOR what to do. He said I could ask a non-Jew to put it back on - I didn't even have to hint, I could make a direct request. Then he told me where to find a non-Jew who was used to receiving such requests. :>)
Good story. :)
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