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Rabbi Moshe Haber- Sukkah: God's Extra Touch of Love and Protection 10.6.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  There are many, many different angles to the to the zuka and to
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  the purpose of the holiday. And it's actually strange, I
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  think and it's so many different lessons from the same zuka.
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  The starters we have the basic mitzvah which is to go into the
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  zuka to eat in the zuka, but yet the Ukraine Tadudu to live in
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  the zuka. That's our obligation.
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  And that really means when you say live, you would decide to
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  define how are you really going to live.
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  The best example is your friend comes over.
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  Where are you sitting? You sitting with him on your
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  porch. You sitting without a zuka.
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  You sitting with him in the living room without a zuka or
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  are you bringing him into the zuka?
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  You want to buy us into your home.
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  Classy example is if you're considering or trying to
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  consider I was zuka our home. You should be inviting our
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  friends into our Zuka to sit around and just wounds.
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  Of course, I think we kept what we say in the Zuka VS That's a
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  sign that's your home. So the real core of this mossah
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  came when the fact there were pasuk says to remember Ki basuko
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  to Shafi that Hashem put us in Sukkot in the desert.
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  Even within that is true means either means it operates in
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  literal huts. I mean there's protection.
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  Hashem put us in huts basically to protect us from the weather,
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  from the climate, or Hashem protected us with Ananiaca or
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  with the clouds, and the Zuka is the commemoration of those
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  clouds. These are the different ways you
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  learned all right? He discussed Monday matters in
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  the Sokka or if you discuss like Monday matters with your
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  friends. So win Soka.
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  We should be out of Soka or the band Soka.
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  Mundane, basic mundane. Still on the Sokka crazy.
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  I don't know. We were talking even sports.
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  I would say venture that's a your regular talk.
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  Probably still OK being the Sokka language.
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  Not the best and other things there's a debate if a person
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  should use their Suka. It's like almost like their
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  office even stuff like that yes, you should make it suit out of
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  your home and if you're going to be over tough on yourself and
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  saying I have to make sure everywhere this kid is Shaw, you
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  can end up using it very little and that's not a good thing.
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  A suka should be a hangout spot. Careful, normally I think you're
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  mundane yes. So now, and if you have these
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  two opinions as to why we have a suka, the one that says that
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  it's the clouds, I get the one that says because it causes a
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  big miracle. The ones that commemorate a
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  basic sukkah huts that God gave us in the desert.
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  It's a good question. I don't know perfect answer as
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  to why we even need to commemorate.
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  Why did it commemorate something that shouldn't give us huts?
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  That's a basic miracle. It's not an amazing miracle,
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  it's a basic one. Maybe it's just a Zika rod.
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  I'm sure you're remembering the like thing.
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  There's a lot of things to remember in history.
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  It's not the biggest thing to remember, it's just a little bit
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  difficult. The answer that they give is
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  that actual love of our sham and stuff like that, but it's a
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  little challenging and things like this.
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  What is the message of this? Whatever it was, whichever one,
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  it was, the protection that God gave us.
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  What's the purpose of that message?
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  We're a little deeper. Is it that Hashem loves us?
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  Hashem is there for us and we're not.
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  It has the purpose of the message.
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  What is the purpose of the message?
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  To drop deeper of those Sukkot. Hashem is there for us, He loves
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  us, He protects us or they but curve.
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  There's a unique question on that which is God loves us and
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  he's proven that many ways and the desert alone.
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  He proved that he loves us by giving us food miracle the mind
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  giving us water, a miracle with the air and giving us protection
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  the clouds we're only commemorating the third one.
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  Why not commemorate the first two?
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  You're telling me that the sukkah is darshan?
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  Take care of us one way or the other, and the idea that is
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  protection. He loves us, He takes care of
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  us, He's there for us. The water was an example of that
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  as well, and so was the Mon. Why are we emphasizing a third
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  example, which is the clouds, the sukkah, the huts, whichever?
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  Why are we commemorating those and not commemorating the water
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  and the mud? It's a classic question that
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  everybody asks. So you told me to look.
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  Go ahead the the pasuk. Also says it only with regards
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  to the. Why is that the case?
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  It took go the Pasuka saying to remember the sukkah, and the
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  goal of remembering the sukkah is an element of Itzamat same.
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  So why are we emphasizing that example in the desert and not
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  putting emphasis? Why the throne not putting
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  emphasis if the goal is a muna? The goal is of Hashem,
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  appreciation, enjoyment, all that.
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  Why not commemorate the Mon on the water?
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  You could say the sukkah fully covers and encompasses you be
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  fully surrounded by it. So that's the ultimate
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  protection where it's like a force build sort of other ones
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  are they sustain you, but it's. Not the same in the sense good.
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  So the different angles are saying that answer, which is the
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  uniqueness is important to keep in mind the sukkah.
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  The unique element to the sukkah is that it's a little bit more
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  and the man and the bear in this way one, it was kind of an
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  extent. The mind was food, the air was
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  water. No one go without water and
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  food. No one could go without
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  protection either. It was a protection in the
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  clouds and the, and the but it was more than that.
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  It was making you comfortable. It was making us comfortable in
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  the desert. So it was an action Hashem was
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  creating an action of awesome desert.
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  And we need to commemorate that because that's the son of love.
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  That's a sign of care. That's not just a sign of
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  protection and a basic living. It's sounded a bit more.
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  In fact, they had your own home, they had your, you have that
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  protection. And while they were in the
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  desert, they had their own special perfectly climated place
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  person. Yeah.
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  Although I'll give you an example to this point, it proves
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  extra. It's brought down.
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  And although Omnisilla travelled with the aid of the aid of the
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  people who came from its sign, who converted?
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  Not the greatest people, right? They still travel with them, but
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  the area of did not get the same cloud protection as we did.
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  We had special support, whether it be Hutz or cloud and they did
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  not going to the source I saw last night, which means so they
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  weren't accepted as fool Jews. They weren't they, they became
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  converse. They were problems, but they
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  became converse, but they were not treated in this same way,
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  which is an indication again of the unique element of God's love
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  for us. It was seen through the clouds
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  through the house. So it's an actual level of love
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  and the ideas of sukkah should feel like you're in Hashem's
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  hands. We told you the example
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  yesterday, classic example. You know it there's Sukah has to
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  be 3 wolves, actually 2 1/2 wolves.
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  All right, you've heard this point before. 2 1/2 walls
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  includes on this like an embrace right, 1/2 and 1/2 or like a
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  less than 1/2 a drop. Why the all it's all needs to be
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  here, like has to be this two walls and A and the comparison
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  is the United shamps embrace. That's the idea, as the God is
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  meant to feel like an extra special feeling, an extra
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  special connection to Hashem, Not simply that he sustains us,
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  He sustains everybody. Not simply that He gives us
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  water or food, rather a bit more.
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  He gives us a tad more. As a Jew, you should sense
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  Hashem gives you a drop more, you living on a drop, more of a
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  miraculous existence. All our stories of Hashcar
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  Kapurati, all our examples where we see Hashem in our lives, all
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  those examples are not examples that Eddie Goy can say, Anand
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  you will not be able to say that he has the same examples as
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  ours. They have their examples.
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  But now like our, our examples are a drop more, a little bit
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  extra touch of love, a little bit more of care, a little more
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  of warmth. And that is seen and felt in the
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  sukkah. So when he step into the sukkah,
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  he's stepping into that feeling of love, of comfort, of care, of
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  connection to God, of certain level and appreciation and
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  therefore at least the happiness.
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  So the sukkah is meant to be our special comfort zone.
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  It's not simply that you're living, it's rather you're
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  living our way and our ways. So because that's the case,
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  that's what God's meant to be. That fits with the idea that
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  zuka is extra spiritual, because if I'm in this special embrace
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  of God, I mean the special protection of Hashem, special
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  extra, not simply leaving a bit more.
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  That is a level of God's existence.
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  This connects the idea that the sukkah has great protection and
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  also very spiritual. They go directly related because
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  being that it's such a great connection to God and it's
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  actually touched the law from Hashem, that means you're more
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  with Hashem. That's therefore more spiritual.
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  So they go hand in hand. The idea that the Zukah has your
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  representation of protection, love protection combined with
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  the fact that God has a connection to God.
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  The one in the same. He's closer to me with his
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  protection. So he's closer to me and that's
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  amazing spiritual place. If I promised him that the idea
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  if I shouldn't just took care of us, that wouldn't feel like his
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  embrace. If I shouldn't just made it work
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  out that wouldn't feel like we're not shown his hands, but
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  because he does it actually touch the law and he does in a
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  unique way. You know we live our existence
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  by now. You know our this is an our
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  right miracle. But now you know the duty people
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  of distance is a clear and open miracle.
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  It's clear. How do we know?
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  Look at the world today and look how much they love us.
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  Sarcastic me right? And that's bubbling up inside
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  for his entire history. So that being the case doesn't
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  really make any sense. Our existence, and it's clear
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  that our existence is based on a touch, an extra touch of love
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  for Masham, actually touch your protection, not simply
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  sustaining, rather doing a bit more Jimmy Sake.
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  You feel that way. That's what the sukkah is
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  supposed to represent. And when you're stepping into a
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  physical structure representing that idea, that's exactly what
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  you're doing. You're stepping into a
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  realization of the way God takes care of us.
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  That's the case. I feel closer to him during
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  those moments and then the sukkah itself in more of his
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  virtual existence based on the fact that if you're getting
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  closer to Hashem's protection, getting close to Hashem's
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  existence is the hand in hand army is the idea and we're
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  supposed to feel an elevated plane when we stepping to that
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  tsuka just to feel that way because you are stepping closer
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  to God with his love and all stepping close to God and it's
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  embrace. That's the idea.
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  So you are a different plane. You're your whole religion and
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  your own mindset is better or anything.
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  The suka based on this concept, that's the IE and you have many
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  elements that prove this point, but this is the core.
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  So This is why we make a commemoration of the clouds or
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  the huts more than the food and the water.
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  The food and water are sustenance.
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  This is a bit more. This is why we feed how we we we
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  couldn't consider ourselves connected as Shen the sukkah now
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  with other miracles. Other miracles are just keeping
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  us alive. This is doing a postman.
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  This is just the field all right under the sky of Hashem told the
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  same idea or we say yes sitting in the class.
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  It's all going to at the point where that's the glory and did
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  any lead to the next step or just happiness question
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  happiness comes from where honest answer.
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  I know people love to say you know if you you're happy with
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  Eli happy reality. What is the core of our
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  happiness. OK, good grants to give a clip
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  after this comes with two things, right?
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  Very favorable having is 2 things.
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  It comes for appreciating what you have and it comes for being
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  less related to material. Same idea, the same thing. 1 is
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  a spiritual angle and one is more of a mental angle, but
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  they're the same idea. Which means very clearly, if I
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  don't appreciate what I have, I am say I am say because I see
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  what I'm like. Simple, clear, right?
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  Equally, if I am, that was a lot of points.
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  If I'm machining materialistically driven all
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  right, there's no way of me to be happy.
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  There's always something else out there.
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  Same head and they go hand in hand with the idea is appreciate
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  what you have and therefore being less materialistic driven,
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  you are a much happier person. There's less things are there to
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  get you upset. The guy needs to drive $1000 a
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  month car, right? So if he doesn't have it, that's
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  not what his library has. And if he needs that based on
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  that need, he's not happy either because he's constantly trying
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  to live a certain lifestyle and you're to be to be some huh?
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  What you require is to be not so needy, which means the more you
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  need, the more you desire, the more you have and the more so it
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  is. So Sukkot with this whole beauty
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  also commemorates the idea that it's not all right.
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  So let's close the three points. Opening point is you feel the
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  protection of a shrimp with that regular protection, extra touch
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  of love. We therefore feel extra touch of
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  love. You feel close as a spirituality
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  that comes out of the car. And with this we feel happier
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  because we're good with this and we're not.
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  Look, if anything else, we're good with the simple but
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  beautiful touch of love of God. God is such a love of flimsy
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  wolves. They're not sturdy wolves,
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  they're floozy. They're delicate, but they're
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  good and we're good. And that's the beauty.
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  This you've only need to that hot and you're getting excited.
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  Yes, because it's God's hot. It's God's connection and it's
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  God take care of you. And I'm good with that.
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  And I feel very settled. I'd rather be in the flimsy hawk
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  of God then in a metal sturdy wall without go.
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  That's the idea. That's the right.