Shabbat Chol Hamo'ed Sukkot - 'Kohelet - Sunlight and Shade'
בס"ד This is dedicated to my maternal grandmother Chaya Rivka bat R’ Kalman Bienenzucht whose yartzheit was on Shabbat A few weeks' ago, The Beatles' Abbey Road album returned to #1 in the pop album charts (UK) and one of the best songs on the album is "Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison. Mishnah Sukkah 1:1 (1) A sukkah which is more than twenty cubits high is not valid. Rabbi Judah validates it. One which is not ten handbreadths high, or which does not have three walls, or which has more sun than shade, is not valid .... The Gemara (Sukkah 22b) raises an interesting question - what if there equal amounts of sunshine and shade - will the Sukkah be kosher? It replies with the answer, that it all depends on which angle you view both the sunlight and shade. In the case where you look at the schach and see them being equal, then the sukkah would be pasul (i.e. non-kosher) but if you look at the ratio on the ground, where the beams of sun