Roofs In The Torah

Roof torah rabbi david kasher august 28th 2020 shabbat ki teitzei our torah reading this week has more laws in it than any other in the torah 74 in total.

Roofs in the torah.

Crossword answers for on the roof jewish family in russian empire added on friday february 21 2020. There is a positive torah command to build a fence on the roof of a house that s used for living. When you build a new house you shall make a parapet for your roof that you may not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. When thou buildest a new house then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof that thou bring not blood upon thy house if any man fall from thence.

Both the roof and any other object of potential danger by which it is likely that a person could be fatally injured require that the owner take action just as the torah commands us to make a fence on the roof and so too regarding any obstacle which could cause mortal danger one not just the owner has a positive commandment to remove it if one does not remove it but leaves those obstacles constituting potential danger one transgresses a positive commandment and negates a. The rabbis of the talmud stipulated that a sukkah should have at least three walls and a covering. A sukkah or succah ˈ s ʊ k ə. סוכה hebrew pronunciation.

An addition on the eastern side of the prayer hall constructed at a later date was reached from the porch in the south by two entrances with another entrance via a staircase in the northeastern corner of the courtyard. Keeping the torah includes keeping the sabbath on the seventh day of the week saturday celebrating the jewish feasts and festivals keeping the dietary laws avoiding the paganism of christianity christmas easter etc and learning to understand the scriptures from a hebrew mindset. Plural סוכות hebrew pronunciation. Sukkot or sukkos or sukkoth often translated as booth is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week long jewish festival of sukkot it is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal harvest or judaic themes.

It is a very old roofing method and has been used in. Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw water reed sedge cladium mariscus rushes heather or palm branches layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed trapping air thatching also functions as insulation. The roof should be made out of thatch or branches which provides some shade and protection from the sun but also allows the stars to be seen at night. The walls can be of any material but should be sturdy enough to withstand an ordinary wind.

The fence on the roof must be ten tefachim 86 centimeters and strong enough so it would prevent someone from falling. New american standard 1977. One of those is the commandment to build a protective fence around ones roof so that no one can fall off.