Quoting%20commentary for Sukkah 31:8

איכא דרמי ליה מירמא תנן החוטט בגדיש לעשות לו סוכה אינה סוכה והא תניא הרי זו סוכה אמר רב הונא לא קשיא כאן בשיש שם חלל טפח במשך שבעה כאן בשאין שם חלל טפח במשך שבעה:

Some put it in the form of a contradiction. We have learned: if he hollows out a haystack to make for himself a sukkah, it is no sukkah. But has it not been taught that it is [a valid] Sukkah? R. Huna answered: There is no difficulty, the latter refers to where there is a hollow of a handbreadth extending to seven [handbreadths] while the former refers to where there is no hollow of a handbreadth extending to seven [handbreadths].

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