Q&A: A Question About a Bent Wall
A Question About a Bent Wall
Question
Hello Rabbi,
The sukkah I built relies on the leniency of a bent wall. The problem is that I’m not sure whether that leniency applies in my case. See the picture:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAcyiOHCUNXCEmTVxWg6NxkeHYbj2so3/view?usp=sharing
As you can see in the picture, the right wall is underneath the roof of the balcony above it, and therefore part of the sekhakh there is invalid. My question is whether the invalidity of the sekhakh is of the kind that allows use of the bent-wall leniency, or not?
Best regards,
Answer
Definitely. This is exactly a case of a bent wall. However, this depends on the question of whether the invalid sekhakh is the ceiling above, or the sekhakh beneath it. If it is the ceiling, then one would need to combine several halakhic principles here ("the wall extends upward" (gud asik), bent wall, and perhaps also "the edge of the roof creates a wall" (pi tikra)), and there are those who do not accept this. But simply speaking, the invalid sekhakh is the sekhakh beneath the ceiling, and then this is an ordinary case of a bent wall.