When our הרות speaks about the Festival of סוכות it states,חג הסוכות תעשה לך באספך מגרנך ומיקבך”,1″ “The סוכות holiday should be observed at the time that you harvest your grain and your wine,” during the fall. Our חכמים have taught us that this קוספ has another interpretation. The סוכה, in which we dwell during this חג , should be made from the unused parts of the harvested grain and wine, namely the stalks of grain and twigs of the vine. These are the items that should be used for the סכך, the covering, which is placed on top of the סוכה instead of a permanent roof.
Our rabbis have further taught that this directive, פסולת גורן ויקב, includes other items that are similar to stalks and twigs that are no longer attached to the ground and cannot become ritually impure, טמא. Unfinished wood slats, corn stalks, and palm branches are […]