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Sam, the Gra says that there is only one machloket between the Zohar and the Gemara (whether one can walk past a person davening the Amida on the side – the Gemara is meikal, the Zohar is machmir). If someone thinks he found another either he didn’t understand the Gemara or he didn’t understand the Zohar of he didn’t understand either. As for inyanim, the Arizal is very strict about not weaqring black clothing on Shabbat. However, Rav Mordechai Eliahu says that today it is davka apppropriate as people today consider black clothing to be sharp and not the color of mourning. So it could be that teh issue of a non-Jew (during Chol HaMoed – Yom Tov is a halachic problem)could depend on the elvel of the local non-Jews, the relationship with him, etc. If excluding him will cause animosity then it is prohibited to exclude him for obvious reasons (BTW, the reason he cannot put up the shach is because he is not shayach to the mitzva. However, it seems that if we can be sure that he will not walk away he can be a dofen – Mishna Berura 630:55)
An Eved isn’t allowed in the Azarah either. That wouldn’t change anything.
An Eved gets a mitzvah for eating in a Succa, even though he isn’t obligated to. (Just as a woman.) A goy gets no such mitzvah. So, clearly, an eved has business to be in a Succa while a goy does not.
I just heard in the name of Rav Neventzahl that a Goy can put up a sukka and even the shach. As for sitting in it, if he can even be part of it (if we can be sure that he won’t walk away) then surely he can simply be inside it.
1. The Kaf haChaim only refers to an idolator (akum) not a non-idolatrous non-Jew (aino Yehudi). Rav Mutzafi says that it is permitted although it is middat chassidut not to.
2. There is no prohibition of having a non-Jewish friend. In fact, Rebbe was friendly with Antoninus and Shmuel was friendly with Avlet. He even drank cooked wine with him (A”Z 30a).
While Muslims are non-idolatrous, the Christians (see the Rambam) and virtually every other goyishe religion is idolatrous.
The Gemora in the tractate Avodah Zarah holds the Goyim responsible for not keeping the mitzva of Sukah at the arrival of Moshiach.
Laskern, it does not hold the “responsible”. It just points out that it is not appropriate for them. Rav Kook explains that this is why they received the sheva mitzvot and we received the taryag.
Maybe you are right once they escaped from the Sukkah, it became inappropriate for them.
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