If on Shabbos or Yom Tov the walls blew off due to wind and invalidated the Sukkah, may it be replaced?
No.[1] It is likewise forbidden to ask a gentile to do so on one’s behalf.[2] If however, three walls still remain standing and thus the Sukkah remains valid, then it is permitted to place the fourth wall on with an irregularity [due to Muktzah].
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[1] Admur 315:3 “There is never a case that [making] a temporary divider would be forbidden with exception to if made in order to Halachically legalize the status of a Sukkah as will be explained in chapter 630 [Halacha 12 in Michaber/Rama]”; Michaber and Rama 315:1; Rabbeinu Tam Shabbos 125b; Thus, while one may not make the 3rd wall of the Sukkah on Shabbos [Michaber 630:12] he may make a fourth wall. [Rama ibid; Rabbeinu Tam Tosafos Shabbos 125b]
[2] Ateres Chachamim ibid; Nitei Gavriel ibid
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