Shammai's Sukkah Over a Newborn
When his daughter-in-law gives birth on Sukkos, Shammai breaks open the roof over her bed and covers it with s'chach. But who was the sukkah for?
Shammai’s daughter-in-law gave birth over Succos (Yevamos 15a). She was recuperating in the house. Shammai managed to make a hole in the roof over the bed she was resting in and placed s’chach over that hole. It is clear that the new mother did not need to sit in the sukkah. If so, for whom was this sukkah intended?