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Rava: A sukkah built under a tree is only disqualified if it has thick foliage and ‘more shade than sunlight’. But if the tree is sparse and allows ‘more sunlight than shade’, it is kosher.
Summary
Challenge: *What is accomplished by the tree allowing more sunlight than shade? Since the tree’s possul shade covers part of the kosher schach, those areas are disqualified as well. Although the kosher schach consists of ‘more shade than sunlight’, since part of it is disqualified, it may provide less kosher shade than sunlight.
Resolution: The branches are lowered and mixed in with the kosher schach, they are thus battel b’rov [nullified, by the majority of kosher schach].
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