Read these essays on Tractate Sukkot from the Talmud
“Recipes” for building a sukka include “on a camel”, “in a hut” and “in a stack of grain”.
- Massekhet Sukka: Introduction to the Tractate
- Sukka 2a-b: A Sukka Over Twenty Cubits High
- Sukka 3a-b: The Size of a Sukka
- Sukka 4a-b: Using a Sukka Whose Walls Are Not the Right Height
- Sukka 5a-b: Measuring Utensils and Accoutrements
- Sukka 6a-b: Defining Partitions on Sukkot and on Shabbat
- Sukka 7a-b: Learning from Shabbat to Sukkot
- Sukka 8a-b: Using a Hut as a Sukka
- Sukka 9a-b: Setting the Sukka Aside for the Holiday
- Sukka 10a-b: When Using a Canopy Bed in Your Sukka
- Sukka 11a-b: Roofing for One’s Sukka I
- Sukka 12a-b: Roofing for One’s Sukka II
- Sukka 13a-b: Thorny Plants for Roofing the Sukka
- Sukka 14a-b: Overturning Grain and Anger
- Sukka 15a-b: Moving the Boards
- Sukka 16a-b: A Sukka in a Stack of Grain
- Sukka 17a-b: A Curved Wall in a Sukka
- Sukka 18a-b: Depending on the Situation
- Sukka 19a-b: A Sukka Without a Roof
- Sukka 20a-b: Sleeping Under the Bed
- Sukka 21a-b: A Sukka Resting on the Legs of a Bed
- Sukka 22a-b: A Sukka Meduvlelet
- Sukka 23a-b: A Sukka on a Camel
- Sukka 24a-b: Anticipating a Change in the Status Quo
- Sukka 25a-b: One Mitzva Exempting You From Another
- Sukka 26a-b: Eating Outside the Sukka
- Sukka 27a-b: Eating in the Sukka
- Sukka 28a-b: The Students of Hillel
- Sukka 29a-b: Make Your Sukka Your Home
- Sukka 30a-b: A Mitzva Fulfilled By Means of a Transgression
- Sukka 31a-b: Using a Stolen Sukka
- Sukka 32a-b: The Leaves of the Myrtle
- Sukka 33a-b: The Berries of the Myrtle
- Sukka 34a-b: The Aravah
- Sukka 35a-b: The Identity of the Peri Etz Hadar
- Sukka 36a-b: Taking a Bite of an Etrog
- Sukka 37a-b: Waving the Lulav
- Sukka 38a-b: When One Can’t Recite the Prayers
- Sukka 39a-b: Buying an Etrog in the Sabbatical Year
- Sukka 40a-b: The Severity of the Sabbatical Year
- Sukka 41a-b: For How Long Do We Celebrate with the Lulav and Etrog?
- Sukka 42a-b: Those Who Know How, Must Do
- Sukka 43a-b: Other Mitzvot of the Holiday
- Sukka 44a-b: The Source of the Mitzva of Aravah
- Sukka 45a-b: Performing the Mitzva of Aravah
- Sukka 46a-b: Commanded in the Mitzva of the Lulav
- Sukka 47a-b: The Eighth Day of Sukkot
- Sukka 48a-b: Water Libations
- Sukka 49a-b: Down the Drain
- Sukka 50a-b: Joyous Celebration on Sukkot
- Sukka 51a-b: The Return to Egypt
- Sukka 52a-b: The Evil Inclination
- Sukka 53a-b: Are You Here?
- Sukka 54a-b: The Timing of the Holidays
- Sukka 55a-b: The Song of the Day
- Sukka 56a-b: The Family of Bilga