{"id":13021,"date":"2009-09-30T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daat-emet.sentice.com\/with-what-does-one-thatch-a-sukkah"},"modified":"2016-10-13T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:47:27","slug":"with-what-does-one-thatch-a-sukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/daily-peppers\/with-what-does-one-thatch-a-sukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"With what does one thatch a sukkah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The early sages were divided on the matter of what one uses to thatch a sukkah. According to the sage Rabbi Judah, one thatches using only the Four Species: branches of the etrog tree, palm, myrtle, or willow. According to a different sage one may thatch with any sort of branch. The scholars asked: Rabbi Judah, who demands thatch only of the Four Species, also said that one is permitted to thatch with branches of the <I>erez<\/I>, but the <I>erez<\/I> is not one of the Four Species. Answer: The phrase &#8220;branches of <I>erez<\/I>&#8221; means branches of myrtle. Why was the myrtle, the <I>hadas<\/I>, called <I>erez<\/I>? Answer: The <I>erez<\/I> is a type of tree with ten distinct trees, as can be learned from the verse &#8220;I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, the myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine and the box tree together&#8221; (Isaiah 41:19).<br \/>\n(Babyloniain Talmud, Tractate Sukkah 36b-37a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early sages were divided on the matter of what one uses to thatch a sukkah. According to the sage Rabbi Judah, one thatches using only the Four Species: branches of the etrog tree, palm, myrtle, or willow. According to a different sage one may thatch with any sort of branch. The scholars asked: Rabbi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2610,"featured_media":20458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-peppers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21877,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions\/21877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daatemet.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}