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What to Do If it Rains the First Night of Sukkos?

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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  1. 0:01Okay, friends. Good morning. Welcome everybody. In the northeast of the United States, everybody's eye is…
  2. 1:36nights of Sukkot. Layla Rishona, you must eat a Kazayis in the Sukkah even if it's…
  3. 3:08Now, will I be able to pull it off? Luckily, I have a good wife. She'll…
  4. 4:41the first night even if it's raining. They hold mitztayer is patur even the first night.…
  5. 6:13patur, I'm allowed to eat right away. >> [snorts] >> So, the stringent opinion of waiting…
  6. 7:43What's the happy medium? Maybe 90 minutes. Lemayseh, if everyone's cranky after an hour, you could…
  7. 9:16cause the following problem. If you're going to make kiddush right away in the house and…
  8. 10:51in the rain, and then I go back in for the rest of the meal, and…
  9. 12:23It's a It's a whopper of a chumer. So, you want to know what do you…
  10. 13:55And now, the only reason you didn't make kiddush in your house the first night right…

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