Q. On a pop up suka that you use for traveling, the area inside is only about a square meter and people eat in it usually standing do you have to have a chair and table too?
A. Shaarei Tzion (634: 7) permits one to eat in the Suka from hand to mouth without the benefit of a table. However he seems to contradict his ruling in Mishna Berura (640: 27) that one should leave the table in the Suka when sleeping (Suka Kehichoso 9: 6 and Shone Halochos 640: 5, see also Moadim Uzmanim 1: 87 that disagrees that one must leave the table in the Suka when sleeping at night).
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that since a table could be as small as a square Tefach (10 cm. x 10 cm.) any small box over three Tefochim high (30 cm.), where one could place a drink or a sandwich, would qualify as a table, one should indeed if possible place it in the Suka and seat on a folding chair.
He added, that even though, traveling people are in principle exempt from using a Suka (Shulchan Aruch O.H. 641:8) it is preferred to eat in one. Especially if one travels for personal enjoyment and one can recite the leishev brocho when eating bread.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a.
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