Friends Sukkot, I want to share with you a journey, a long journey actually, but not a difficult one,

but a really, really revelatory one as to the nature of Sukkot.

And I hope you'll be able to, I'm going to go at speed.

You see we have a lot of Makorot.

But I hope we'll see something really quite new.

And let me share therefore with you the following.

Preparatory questions.

Number one, what actually is Sukkot?

Right?

There is only one point in the whole of the Torah.

You see there in Source 1, which actually tells you what Sukkot is all about, right?

But Sukkot, Teeshvu, can you see it?

Si Vad Yamim, live in a Sukhah for seven days, call Ehrach, be Israel, yeshru, Buzhqqq. Everyone born in Israel must sit in a Sukkha, Laman, Yidu Doroetham, so that your generations shall know, that, by the Israelites, live in Sukkot, Bodhiota Merits Mitzraim,

when I took them out of the land of Egypt, I am the Lord your God.

Now tell me what is a Sukkah?

What does it symbolize?

And on this, we know a famous rabbinic disagreement.

You will find it in two versions in sources two and three.

I'll just read you the more famous one from the Babylonian Talmud.

De Tanya, Kibu Sukkhodo Shafti at Bene Israel, Ananae Kavod Hayu, Divray, Rabbi Eliazza.

The Sukkot represent the clouds of glory that protected the Israelites for 40 years as they wandered through the wilderness

Divray Rabbi Eliazah. That is the view of Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi Akiva Omer, Rabbi Kiva says, Sukkot Mamma Shasalaham. Actually, a sukkah is a sukkah, is a sukkah. It's just literally a sukkah. That's what the Israelites lived in, and that's what it symbolizes. If you look at Source 3, you'll find the same disagreement, but Makhlav It Hashita.

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