A Short but Important Sukkos Perspective - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

a good might hope that everybody had a beautiful circus you know on a number of occasions I was walking the halls of hospitals and people came over to me and said to me are you a rabbi I said I said I am I said can you please come to our room my mother my brother my sister my child is really ill Rabbi can you say a prayer and of course I would but I always turned to them and I said to them do I have a monopoly or a copyright I'm praying you can pray too and most people said we're not comfortable praying and it's sad when a Yiddish a person maybe they're a little bit far from the robot but they don't feel a comfort level they're not comfortable with their relationship with the ribena shalom but circus is a time where we could really work on that relationship and getting a certain Comfort level of communicating with robust Zone and I'm going to show you how in the most beautiful way if you look carefully in the Torah each day of sukkas they brought a number of parim a number of cows as carbonics it starts with 13 and each day it decreases until we're down to seven param why is that says the medrish what could this could be compared to this could be compared to a situation where one has a guest the first day that they're there you treat them with royalty you give them a gorgeous meal with meat and with wine on China but as they're there a day two four or five a week slowly but surely you start toning it down a little bit by the time they're a weekend they're getting peanut butter jelly sandwiches with everybody else in the family so as the matter is the same thing the first day we've been 13 pounds by the time we get to the last day of circus we're down to seven param now I can understand that if you have a human guest flesh and blood that eventually they just start I guess treating them like everybody else but if you have their banish them you're going to treat him like everybody else what's the shot so I heard a beautiful thought it's not that we're diminishing's presence it's a certain High meshkite a certain Comfort level that we get by having the rabbanish by living with Hashem in our lives and by the time a person has gone through one two five six days of circus at that point they're supposed to be able to feel comfortable with having to punish them the way they speak in their they act in their sukkah all those things should be elevated that having hashem's presence Hashem kabiyah becomes like being one of our family members what's interesting is the mission says Imperials foreign that poor people should be members of your home one shot according to this means that you should treat poor people that they should feel like they're part of the family they should feel comfortable they should feel back for them they should feel highness in our home so as we slowly but surely go through the days of circus and we have your Mushroom in our little homes our microcosmic homes our circus let's make sure that each day we become a little bit more comfortable by elevating and upgrading our level of the way we conduct ourselves the final day of circus there'll be a certain sense of comfort so we can talk through a bunch of them and we complete our case on the final day