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Someone engrossed in one mitzvah is sometimes exempt from certain other mitzvot.

So, I wonder, based on a question from Reddit user GutsAndGlory2:

While engaged in the mitzvah of sleeping in a sukkah, are you exempt from saying the morning Shemoneh Esrei?

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    So what, Chazal only composed a prayer service for Sukkot in case it rained? – Double AA Mar 22 '13 at 06:22
  • @DoubleAA, maybe they composed it for early risers. – msh210 Mar 22 '13 at 07:53
  • @msh210 Ah I hadn't considered your diyuk. I was assuming being in the sukkah is the same kiyum (תשבו כעין תדורו). – Double AA Mar 22 '13 at 07:55
  • @DoubleAA, when one's awake presumably he'd not be exempt, as one can pray in the suka. But the question was about someone sleeping. – msh210 Mar 22 '13 at 15:15
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    I've prayed in my sleep before, but I was instructed to repeat it as it didn't count. – Seth J Mar 22 '13 at 18:14
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    Continuing in what I see as the tongue-in-cheek tone of the question: He should dwell in the sukkah as he dwells in his house. If at home he sleeps through shacharit, he should do the same in the sukkah. – Ze'ev misses Monica Sep 25 '13 at 02:25

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I recall hearing of an halachic opinion (not necessarily to be relied upon!) that anyone sleeping is exempt from mitzvos since he is incapacitated and thus anus. I can't cite that view at the moment, but according to it, yes, someone sleeping in a suka is exempt from shacharis.

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