I'm at a Shiur and the rabbi said that a sukkah can have walls made of anything even "elephants," but I'm pretty sure he was being facetious. Can anyone provide a source verifying or explaining?
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Are you at the shiur right now? Asking Mi Yodeya about the shiur while you're sitting there? – Y e z Oct 07 '14 at 01:54
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@YEZ See his profile pic? ( in all truth, he's probably using the present tense to describe past events [insert fancy literary term that I cannot remember] ) – MTL Oct 07 '14 at 02:00
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@YEZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_present – MTL Oct 07 '14 at 02:02
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@Shokhet I just thought it was humorous. Although he mixed up some tenses for historical present. – Y e z Oct 07 '14 at 02:09
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@YEZ Don't think so -- if he's thinking back to a point in time at which he remembered something that "the rabbi said" 5 minutes earlier.....וצריך עיון. – MTL Oct 07 '14 at 02:11
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2I was in the Shiur then. ;) – Moshe Oct 07 '14 at 14:05
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Its a gemara in Succah 23a and halacha rules this way in shulchan aruch orach chaim siman 630 siff 11but it must be tied down so it wont walk away.
בפיל קשור כולי עלמא לא פליגי דאי נמי מיית יש בנבלתו י
With a tied down elephant, all opinions agree it is kosher, since even if it dies, there are still 10 handsbreadths (of height) left in the corpse
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I was in the middle of quoting it in my own answer, so I might as well just add it in to yours. – Y e z Oct 07 '14 at 01:54
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@YEZ ty I was wavering about mentioning the dying part and the space between the legs detail. – user6591 Oct 07 '14 at 02:06