Sukkos: The Return of the Clouds of Glory - The Vilna Gaon Revolutionizes Sukkos

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Because I wanted to see if they carry the but they were out of it. So, the good news is if you want to get the safer, you could get it for free. Free. You know what free means? Let's say your lulro is not for free. Your suka is not for free. The bed that you bought at least to sleep in the day in your suka is not free. No, nothing in this world is free. But the basic is free. All you have to do is learn it. Go to safer atra.com.ra.com. Now, you know what else I did? Yeah. Um, yesterday I drove to Yeshiva. Why? Because um President Malay was speaking in Yeshiva Dhar, the president of Argentina, and I wanted to make sure he would have the mystery and the majesty in Spanish. So, I made sure seriously I went to Yeshiva. I gave him my Spanish sarum. I don't know what happened. I'm not sure. I didn't get an official review from Malay on the Spanish, but if you want to get it in Spanish, they're available. You could also get it in English and in Portuguese. So mystery and the majesty it's available really good stuff on the yumptiff of sukus what else is going on h this year Sunday night we're learning so if you want to join the ya program this year we're going to be learning it's an amazing program it meets once a week and uh we're going to asm learn very thoroughly Okay, Rabbi Sai, here we go. The shar we're going to have tonight is literally the most important information on the Yumptiff of Sukus. I would call this year one of the classic alltime shirim blal on any subject that we've had. We're going to start with the amazing of which is not on your sheet in par in the para of the it's saying you're going to bring us where in the place Hashem selected. What does it mean? Hashem selected to do what? To put there. So regarding the PE, it says you're going to bring your in the place Hashem selected. By the way, what place is this referring to? And it says what's the place that Hashem rests his fine. Then it comes to the of the place Hashem selects to do what? To rest his there. So both by PES and it says where are you going to bring carbon in the place Hashem selects to rest his there comes the Y ofus in the place Hashem selects selects to do what doesn't say what's going on over here by P it says Hashem selects the to rest By sh it says Hashem selects the makdash to restina by sukus it omits that hashem selects the makdash to rest. Okay, that's question number one and it's not even on your sheet now. So that all generations should know. You want to hear a good one? How is it possible to eat in your suka? And it's considered like you ate out of the suka. Let's say you ate in the suka and you forgot to think I'm having kavana to mim the mitzvah of suka. So do you get credit for the mitzvah? You you know I've been beating this like a dead horse for the last two years that if you do a mitzvah and you're not the mitzvah, you don't get credit for the mitzvah. So the guy ate in the sukah but he doesn't get credit for the mitzvah. So it's like maybe he ate out of the suka. So therefore it's very important when you eat in the suka to have kavana to mim the mitzvah of yeshiva basuka. It's very important. You can have a very nice suka. You must think I'm having kavana to fulfill the mitzvah of suka. I recently said this somewhere. They flipped out on me. They they they flipped out mamish. They had the principal call me and I said, "Listen, you know, I don't I don't it's it's not my religion. You know, I don't this is the think they uh they got it. But um in any event, >> that's why we make the >> I know that's what you would have thought, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's important to make a braha. Jewish people should make a braha before they make the mitzvah of but still for kavana according to it doesn't seem to work. Isn't that interesting? Misha is not convinced that it works. Look in any event. Now by the mitzvah of suka it's important to note that besides thinking that you want to fulfill the mitzvah of suka you also should think that you're sitting in the suka at to commemorate the anan. Now is it unanimous that mean it's one one opinion holds that we sat in actual booths and the other opinion holds do you remember what rashi says on that p Rashi says who asked Rashi to chime in and say what sukas are it's why why is Rashi telling right everybody knows by the way there's a who holds what but why Rashi's job is to tell Rashi is to tell me the simple meaning of the why does feel it's necessary to say means clouds of glory by the way the also says so that all generations should know that in the shade of clouds I situated the b is tag also says sukus means the clouds of glory not actual booths Rashi also says the misrai explains that the is that the is referring to because it was referring to then the would have said you sat means I situated ated you. How did God situate us in sukis? That implies clouds of glory, not actual sukis. Because it was actual sukus, then it would have said you sat in them in sukis. You sat. The fact that the says I situated you that implies actually what's interesting is look at number four. So the in terms of the which would which was interesting let's say a person thought when he sat in the suka I have to mitah by the way the bach requires that you also think I'm sitting to commemorate the suk in the midbar let's say a person thinks seems like from the you didn't do it Right? The correct thought should bean. Okay. Fine. So the obvious question here is we're sitting in the suka to commemorate the clouds of glory. The two most important things you should take away from the shir is that when you sit in the suka or you sleep in the suka, you should think I have to the mitzvah of and I'm doing it to commemorate. Can you handle that? That's the that's the main thing. Okay. Now, if you don't think you're having the mitzvah of suka, maybe you'll be able to do other mitzvah that day. You know, I hope you'll be able, but not suka suka. You're not going to you must think that now we're commemorating that. The question is when did Hashem put us in an When Hashem took us out of Mit. When did Hashem take us out of Mit? In what month? Month of Nissan. So, you know, we got a little pro. We got a little logistical problem over here. You know, if you haven't noticed, we're in the Tish month now. You know, we've been saying now for a couple weeks. You know, then we had the the New Year's, the Jewish New Years. Then we had the 10 days of repentance and then Yam Kipper. Now we're in Tish. So why exactly are we commemorating something that happened six months later? Yeah, that's a very famous question. What >> or six months? Actually later because Nissan is the first month of the year. So actually he had taken us out. He had taken us out in on the 15th of Nissan. >> Now we're 6 months after that. >> Yeah. Tish you're right is also 6 months earlier but actually we're going to see it's we're doing it 6 months later now there are people who are very are are you know they come late to everything you know whether it doesn't matter what it is dinging learning people come late to their own wedding you know and there are people who come early other there are some people they come early they leave early you know the guys they come early to shul but by the end they're ready they're you know their talis is off and they're unwrapped they're out the for before it's over. You know, they're early birds, they're late becomers, they're people who come late and then like by ma they're still here for for shakas. So why exactly are we commemorating this miracle uh later than it happened? That's the question of the tour. The tour famously answers that if we would commemorate in Nissan, it would not be recognizable we're commemorating the because it's nice weather outside. People would think we're just doing it to commemorate the weather. We're just doing it to enjoy the weather. So therefore, we wait until the rainy season. We look on the we go to the weather report, not the American weather forecasters, the European weather forecasters. They're forecasting the worst weather in history this coming Friday night. Oh, that that's when we're going to make sukus. You know, we schedule the yumptiff whenever the weather forecasters produ um predict great rain. So like in the year 2000 uh when was October 7th 23 2023 and there was a major flooding here in the five towns the first era of sukus. So perfect we got what we wanted. We could have done it when the weather is nice. We scheduled sukus for the worst weather in 10 years. You know somebody just showed me today um a picture of them in flippers in the suka the first night. You know there was there was water up to their knees. I remember Dave you told me you know your your suka was uh flooded right. I remember my suka had caved in. We had to rebuild it. So perfect. We get what we wanted. We if we're going to do it in Nissan it's going to be nice weather. Nobody's going to know we're doing it for the mitsah. So we do it when the weather is lousy. Can I ask you a simple question? It's not recognizable to who why we're sitting in the suka. Who does it need to be recognizable to? We just said we just we beat it like a a dead horse. If you don't think you're sitting in the suka to the mitzvah, you don't get the mitzvah. So who is it not recognizable to? It's not. It's not. There's pursum by the suka. What does the Torah even mean? That if we would send the suka, it wouldn't be recognizable. What do you mean it won't be recognizable? Everybody knows. We're thinking we're sitting in the suka to commemorate. So that's a question on the tour. Over the years we've answered this question. It does seem like perhaps there's an element of pursua. We're going to come back to this question. That's question number two for the night. Question number three. The this is a question of Mosha Mrani the as well as the how many miracles were in the midbar? What are the three main miracles in the midbar? The man, >> the beer, and the anak. We have a yumptive to commemorate the man. No, no, there's no Monday. There is a Monday, >> Tuesday, >> but but it's every week and it's not a holiday. Monday people are grouchy cuz they're coming back, but there's no official Monday. The only thing we do to commemorate the man is that you cover the kala. You cover the kala. What about the beer? What do we do to commemorate shel? Nothing. Okay. And all of a sudden when it comes to clouds, we have this the longest yumpt of the year. Clouds. Come on. You pay attention to clouds. Like clouds are a big part of your life. Do you look at the weather forecast every day? How cloudy it's going to be? You want to know is it going to rain? Is it not going to rain? Why is it that we dava commemorate the miracle of nanav and not the miracle of the man and not the miracle of beer? Okay, that's question number three. Question number four, who remembers in parish, what is the yumpt of suk is called the the festival of harvest. That's when we bring in all the all of the uh fruits that were uh laying out in the field to dry in the course of the summer. We bring it in. We gather it in. What about in parasa? What do we call sukus? What about why do we call? No. In paras doesn't say in parisa doesn't say we come to paras. What happened to why in paras that's question number four question number five in the med lists all the various miracles of the midbar take a look at this being elevated in the midbar. He saidbar, you know what they had in the midbar? The man, the slav, the beer, the mishkun, the kahuna, malus. Oh yeah. Do you have a question on the medish? How about the order? This is the order, the man, the slav. When did we get the ananak? On the 15th of Nissan when we left Mitzim. We got it basically at the same we got it before the man. The ananak we got before the man. The man we didn't get until when? We got the moment we left. >> We got some say we got only after the uh uh we were uh Moshe had we were forgiven for the ago. >> That's we had it before. We had it the day we left >> and then we left. Well, we're going to see we the anov we had immediately as soon as we left mim says the anan started guiding them out of Egypt. So why does the rabba list the anan as the final miracle? That is question number five. Ready for question number six. Question number six is very interesting. It's my own question. All things being equal, I actually I don't usually do this. When should you buy your L van? Before Yam Kipper or after Yam Kipper? You only have two choices. So my friend says after cuz he he he likes me. That's what I do. I get it usually after. But it's all because I don't have time before. I don't have time before. The mate of says you get your and your lul and yourim you should get it before yam kiper. You should buy it before yam kiper. Why? Because the zus of your preparation in other words what do you mean what difference does it make when you get you're not doing it yet anyway you can't right imagine a guy it's you go into his house he's doing nanu right so you need to call up his practitioner immediately and have him speak what do you mean nan there's no mitzvah so says of his to prepare for the mitzvah is and it will be Okay, fine. So that says it's recommended, it's considered pious to procure your lul and esug um before yam. The re another reason why I don't is because I have a guy who supplies the lul and to basically all of New York and he saves me good stuff. But when he tells me to come, I come whenever that is, you know. So that's but um the mate says you should take the lul of an you should procure it before yam kiper so that the of the lul of an will be added to your scales. Yeah. Question. So then you should build the suka before yum kipper. Yeah. When should you build a when is the correct time to build the suka? After yum kipper saysim begin immediately to make the to go from one mitzvah to the next. So why don't you go buy your lan? Why regarding the l of you take it you prepare it before yam kipper because you want to tilt the scales. So then build the suka. No no no don't build the suka yet. Don't build the suka yet. Don't build the suka until what's your what's your first name again? >> David. >> Ah, so you ready for the answers? So David was ready chomping at the bit. The the following vnagine is the seinal foundational um basis for the yumptiff of sukus. Really the the viligun revolutionizes the sukus. We've said this over many times over the years. There are two versions of the gr. There's something about the second version that comes out a little bit more accurate. It's an amazing gr. It's really a revolutionary gray says like this. Vaguain says you want to know the real answer. The Torah asks we're celebrating sukus in the wrong season. We should celebrate sukus nissan time. Why are we celebrating it tish time? So I'm going to add now what I'm about to say is my own editorial edition and that is the Jewish people do not celebrate miracles. When a miracle happens we do not make a yumptiff to celebrate a miracle. You're going to celebrate a miracle. You have a miracle to celebrate. You have a yumptive to celebrate the fact that the column of smoke in the bdash went straight up and wasn't blown by the will the wind. Is there such a yumptiff? You know, imagine um Jews all over the Catskills in middle of the summer. They make these bonfires. They say, "Well, what's going on?" We're celebrating the fire that went straight up in the Ba Mikdash or they're having barbecues. Why? Cuz the meat never spoiled in the Ba Mikdash. We do not celebrate miracles. It's not a miracle is not such a big deal. Can't change nature. He could he could change anything. He created the system. He could change the system. We don't celebrate miracles. But let's get a little bit of the history. >> Do we? >> Yes. >> We'll come back that one. Remind me Kaneka time. Okay. So So you'll see me. >> It's true. Um the says like David was referring to that it's true that when Bau left Matim they were accompanied by the Anan however what happened was Hashem gave the Torah to the Jewish people went up to Hari and Moshabenu was supposed to come down 40 days later 40 days go by and Mosha is nowhere to be seen the Satan paints imagery in the sky of Moshabenu laying in his death bed. So Claus thought Mishabenu uh died and Claus made the Ael. Moshabenu comes down the next day. He sees Claus made the Ael. He takes the Lis. He smashes the Lis into what? Smitherines. You know what smitherines are? I can't explain right now. Okay. But he smashes it into smitherines. And what they look up to the sky and the anan which was the departed from Benzra it left and not only that Hashem said that's it I'm done with you I'm going to destroy you. So goes up another 40 days and he dabbins for us and he saves our skin. So Hashem says okay let's say we need now. Hashem says, "Okay, take two. Come up again." Goes up and he comes down on the 10th day of with great said, "Beautiful." So, we're forgiven. They look up at the sky. What do they see? Nothing. nothing. It was cloudy but not there. It was empty. Okay. So now now very important when Mosha broke the and was to save our skin said I'm out of here. You go your merry way. I am not going to be with you anymore. I'm going to send an angel. I cannot stand you. meaning and it's not good for you either because if I'm with you and you sin it's going to be a devastating punishment. So says I'm gonna send a malik. So says if you don't lead us we are not budging. We're not leaving. So says I don't just want we only want you. We want you. We don't want an angel. We don't want a middleman. We just want you come back. And guess what? When came down with and they were forgiven, how did Clau feel? Not great. Because they knew they were forgiven, but they didn't have the back with them. They didn't have that. But Mosher Rabenu told them on the 11th of Tish, I'm reading to you now from the vagal Mosher Rabu gathers the Jewish people on the 11th day of Tish and he commands them on the Hamishkan on the 11th of Tish. The people brought nadvice bab on the 12th and the 13th. On the 14th, Mashabenu collected all the nadavvice. On the 15th, they started to build the Mishkan. They looked up to the heavens and you know what they saw in the sky? The return of the Anan says of Nagay, we don't make sukus to commemorate the clouds of glory. God gave us food. We don't make a yamtiff. God gave us water. We don't make a yamtiff. He gives us shade. We don't make a yamtiff either. We're not celebrating the miracle. We're celebrating, listen very carefully, that when we do an ara and then we do chuva, not only does Hashem forgive us, he takes us back and he loves us again as if we never sinned to begin with. He the relationship is restored as if nothing ever happened. The yumpt of sukus is not to commemorate the miracle. It's not to commemorate the miracle. We don't just celebrate miracles. We commemorate the restoration of the relationship that's reflected by the return of the ananak. By the way, Kaneka is the exact same thing. There was a miracle in the basikdash that the maravi never extinguished. But already that 100 years before kaneka started to go out. So the thought theina left them. So when Hashem made a miracle that the n lasted for 8 days they saw that theina returned to them like in the beginning. The reason they made kaneka 8 days is to parallel it after sukus because sukus was also the return of theina but we'll come back to that khan time. Okay this is the version of the vagin and in the avoidas who is a of the vagin. He also quotes this idea but with a little bit of a slight subtle difference a little discrepancy. Namely again he says the reason for the mitzvah of suka is to commemorate the return of the nanav that hashem did not give us over to the leadership of a malik that theina was with us. But listen carefully he says on the 11thu commanded us to bring nadavis. They brought on the 12th and on the 13th as opposed to the grand who says that on the 14th Mosha collected it says that Mosa on the 14th announced stop bringing the and on the 15th returned. Now why is this version better? Why is it better to say on the says on the 14th collected all the says on the 14th Mosa said stop bringing the reason why it's better is as follows who knows what day of the year was the Torah given what day of the week was the Torah given >> Shabas >> Shabas that means yum kipper of that year was a Tuesday If yum kipper was Tuesday, then Mosha told them about bringing nadvice on Wednesday. That means they brought Thursday and Friday. That means the 14th was shabas. So it comes out better like the 14th said stop bringing. By the way the garra learns out from here the source the shabas stop learns out from here. carrying his user on Shabas from the fact that Mabenu said stop bringing stop bringing that's the source that you know how to carry on Shabas so it's a little bit more accurate to say that on the 14th Mabenu said stop donating than to say that he gathered all of the donations okay friends let's let's study this for a minute so let's let's discuss a little bit the three main ones Hashem selected the Jewish people to be his chosen nation. What did Hashem do to us on Shus? He gave us the Tyra. When he gave us the Tyra, he married us. He sat he married us. The Tory is the kaducin. And what happened on sukus? What happened on sukus was that after Hashem threatened to destroy us because of our sin and mohenu not only gained atone atonement for us on yum kipper, but he gained something greater than kapara. You know what's greater than kapara? It's called reity. You know what reitzoy is? Let's say like this. Let's say um you have a good friend and you go out. You go out with his friend all the time. You go to dinner together once a week and your friend makes a wedding and he didn't invite you. How do you feel about that? You're insulted. I thought we go out every single week together. we go out for pizza and now you invite me to your kid's wedding. You're very insulted. So he apologizes and he said, "I'm sorry. I can't believe I don't know what happened. I wasn't thinking. I didn't have it together. I didn't mean it." And you make up. Now before you made up, you wanted to ring his neck. You were so upset at him. So you met up. He comes to you say, "Next week say, "Hey, you want to go out for pizza?" He says, "No." He says, "What do you mean? I thought you were I'm I So you're angry at me?" "No, I'm not angry at you. You want to ring my neck?" "No, I don't want to ring your neck. So why don't you Why don't you want to go out for pizza?" "Cuz I don't like you. I'm you. I have nothing against you. God should bless you. You should have a long happy life. You should win the lottery. I just don't like you. I don't want to spend time with you." So you're angry at me. I'm not angry at you. I'm not angry at you. I And I hope you make many weddings and please don't invite me cuz I don't plan on coming to them. I have no hard feelings and no hard feelings. I just don't like you. I don't want to spend time with you. So you think it's enough on yum kipper. We sit the whole day in and we clap al and we commit to all the things we're going to improve on. And the says, "Okay, I'm not going to punish you this year." Okay. So now we we we come to schul and we're dabbing. We and we want Hashem, I want to feel close to you. So, Hashem says, "No, I'm but I'm not close to you because I don't like you anymore." So, you say, "Okay, so you're angry at me?" "No, I'm not angry at me." "So, you're going to punish me?" "Not going to punish." "Am I going to be healthy this year?" "You're going to be very healthy." "Am I going to make money?" "You're going to make more money than last year." So, so why don't I feel close to you? Because I'm not. I don't like you anymore. So, why don't I feel like an elevation when I dab in? I'll tell you why. Because you're not elevated. cuz I can't stand you. You're disgusting. Get lost. So you're upset at me. You're going to hurt me. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to do I'm going to be nicer to you this year. Everything is going to go well. So I want to feel close to you. That's nice. I don't want to feel close to you. So says, "Kapor is not enough. Not enough to be atoned for. Not enough to get kapor. You want Hashem to want you. You want to have a feeling of closeness to Hashem. You want to have a feeling that Hashem is pleased with you and that Hashem wants to hear your and that he wants your mitzvah and that he likes you. Forget about what's in store for the year. You want to feel like you find favor in Hashem's eyes. Let's look at Look at number 14. says that's me and you. We just finished. So we hope we're to wipe out like a cloud your sins and like a and like a thick cloud your iniquities. And you Hem shall want you and he should desire you and he should be intreated by you as if he never sinned. Like it says by Eli Yahu that Elahu said that he wants to be intreated by Hashem. Says it is possible that an a could be atoned and you could be redeemed from Issurim. Remember the last year before Yam Kipper? That was a tough one, right? the the one before Yam Kipper. It's possible your sin could be cleansed and you're scot-free. You don't have to experience any issim and there no gerit. But but God doesn't want you. He doesn't want your mitzvah. He doesn't want your and happy with that? No. It is the desire of the righteous from the greatest successes in this world is to find favor in the eyes of Hashem. Isn't that important to know? If I were to ask you what does it mean to be successful in this in this world? What is success? Is success honor? Is success money? None of the above is success doing mitzvah. No, it's that's some form of success. It's not the greatest success. You know what the greatest success is? To achieve desire from Hashem that Hashem should want you. The biggest biggest success in this world is that Hashem should want you. says, "You know what comes from the desire of Hashem? If Hashem wants you, eternal life, eternal life, and a certain light that encompasses all sweetness. There's a certain recognition. It's it's hard to identify and it's hard to to quantify. There's a certain feeling of spiritual a certain spiritual feeling that you feel the sham desires you. It's the greatest success in this world. Like say all we want is the shining countenance of your face. It's called rats. Therefore, does anybody know in which parak of tim is the par of chuva? Perf is the par of chuva after he says wash me well from my sin. You know what else says after you wash me says Don't throw me away. What does David mean? Don't throw me away. What he means is I know you've atoned for my sin. You're not going to punish me, but don't cast me away. I want to feel close to you. Then says, "Return to me the joy of your salvation that the miracles of Hashem should be found with him." And you should be the ru of of should rest on you like in the beginning. And then says listen carefully says I'm not really deserving that I should find favor in your eyes and that you should love me and that you should desire me and that I should see your miracles. But support me with your generous spirit. Certainly, you have the generosity of spirit that even though I'm not deserving, please show it to me and shower me with your illuminating countenance anyway. So therefore, if let's just uh clarify yum kipper we would call the day of but is that the endgame? No, it's not. It's a good thing. It's good not to have a dirty soul. It's a very good thing to have a clean soul. It's good not to have any impending punishment. That's a wonderful thing. It's good not to have any that are looming. It's really good. It's much much more comfortable. You could breathe easier. But is that the end game? Is that the greatest? No. The greatest is okay. Now I'm free of sin. Now I'm clean. I'm redeemed from but the greatest issue to be able to achieve Hashem's desire and want and Hashem should want me. You know what it's called? You ready for this? Comes a You chose us from all the nations. What? You loved us when you married us. You showed favor to us. You showed that you wanted us. Want is after somebody sins against somebody else and then they make up. Sukus is the greatest happiness. It's veratisa. If you had to capture the yumpt of sukus in two words, you know how he'd capture it. The vner writes in number 13, therefore it says more than any other because on sukus we experienced the rey of and that's the greatest success in life. The greatest braha in life is that Hashem shall want you. And it's only because of Hashem's sterling supernatural mid cuz human nature is if someone hurts you and you make up, human nature is you cannot overcome the grudge you have against them. Right? That's human nature. If somebody crosses you or someone messes with you and someone insults you and they apologize and you forgive them, is it ever the same again? Usually not. Can it be? Yes. By the it's even more than before. You ready for another when you took us out of after the when you took us back even closer than ever before. That's the joy of the ofus. We do not celebrate miracles. We don't celebrate miracles in Judaism. God what? It's it's it's uh unusual for God to perform a miracle. It's surprising that Hashem performed a miracle. We do not celebrate man. We don't celebrate. We don't celebrate an we celebrate the return of the Ananak. Okay. Now going back to the question of the tour, why do we celebrate sukus in Nissan uh in Tish and not in Nissan? The answer is obvious. We never celebrated the miracle to begin with. We're not celebrating the miracle. We're we're celebrating the return of the ananak in parasim. You know what the of sukus is called? The festival of harvest. You know why? Cuz that's all it is. What do you mean? What about sit in the suka? Why in the world would I sit in the suka? Why would I sit in the suka? There's no there's no there's no suka. I don't sit in the suka. to celebrate the miracle of the clouds of glory. No, we don't do things to celebrate miracles. Therefore, in parish, it's only called not called. It wasn't in parisa. It's just called after the and the left and then they returned. Now we got a new y. Now the is also but originally it wasn't comes the ben the you know about the saddicana you could get the safer for free in basic you know about that writes the miracles in are not out of order the order is the man the be the mishkan the kahuna malus and the final miracles because we're not celebrating the miracle of the an we're celebrating the return of the ananak that came last regarding when to do the mitzvah the mitzvah should you do it before yam kiper or should you do it after yam kipper of course you should do it before yam kiper get your vaness before yam kipper so you say why don't you build the suka before yam kipper because it doesn't make any sense to build the suka before yam kipper Because you have to do things in their natural sequence. You see first you need yum kipper you need to be atoned for the aos of the year after which now the suka friends is commemorative of what by the way it's not just the suka is the building of the mishkan which they did misha announced build the mishkun on the 11th and they brought the nav on the 12th and the 13th and they started the 14th. So the most appropriate time to build the suka is after yam kera. What do you mean I want to acrue it to my merit? Okay, that's a good factor. That's why you're going to take your van and you're going to prepare it before according to the mate of fraim. But the suka is much more appropriate to to uh get together in the aftermath of yum kipper. Now here is an interesting question asks are women in or anyone know women >> they're potter ladies are potter from suka do ladies okay ask tyus why are were they in the asks women should be in because right are women do women yeah are women yeah so why are women not in that's ofus I'll ask you another question this whole is predicated on the fact David said it yeah that left really but it says in number 17 your great mercy you never forsook the Jewish people you never remove the clouds of glory from them to guide them the says never forsook us Because the anan never stopped guiding the b is really really according to the gun it did. So this beautiful does not seem to jive with the ready for this. I remember this was um I had this idea about 30 years ago. Rabiar says Rafi you know what tonight is rabbi's yard site nowam there's a rule whenever you learn rabbi it's a good day every you remember that rule any day you learn is a good day I was in today by the guy before he clocked I don't know the guy's making announce I was like what's he going to announce It's amazing. Only in the five towns, you know, you get at the minion for whose yard site it's going to be. Tonight's yard site. The is that the min is to wear white on there's also a min not to wear gold on yum kipper. You know about that minog you don't wear gold on yum. Why? Because because on the day we're trying to get kapar for the eel, you don't want to remind of the eel. You don't wear gold on yum kipper says kar could women wear gold on yum kipper. Yes. You know why they didn't make the eel? They didn't make the eel. Also lvim could wear gold on yum kipper. Any lime here? you could wear gold the market you know put a notification in the for next year you could wear gold on yam kupra so I'm thinking to myself if women didn't make the eal and the only reason why why do we celebrate sukus because returned after the where so what happened to that it left it left or it expelled expelled the Jewish people and if it expelled the Jewish people then maybe it only expelled the men it didn't expel the women in fact I found says that on that when you made theel it stayed it just it expelled the men never expelled the ladies so that answers the says Hashem never forsook us was always there. It was always there. It just it expelled the men. It didn't expel the women. So wants to know women should be in because the n of what we don't celebrate the miracle. What do we celebrate the return? It didn't return for the ladies. They never lost it to begin with. They were sitting in it the whole time. So they don't need to. Sukus is not relevant. No. That's why women are in the suka. It's the men because we're not celebrating the miracle. We're celebrating the return of That's a beautiful answer. Okay, let's wrap it up. You ready? Comes me says that Hashem loved so much that first he calls us his daughter, then he calls us his sister, and then he calls us his mother. So, first we're Hashem's daughter, then we're Hashem's sister, and in the end we're his mother. Question, huh? What is that supposed to mean? What does it mean that we're his daughter, his sister, and his mother? Says that there three on the of Pes. Everything was a freebie. God just showered us. We did nothing. We were on the 50, we were on the 49th level of TMA. We had no mitzv. We did nothing. We were aiming area. We were bare and Hashem gave us Mila and he gave us Pesak and he gave us divine revelation. So we're Hashem's daughter. We're the complete recipient and God is the complete benefactor. Then there's the of it's two-way street. We prepared ourselves. We sanctified ourselves. We came together and God comes down on Hina and he reveals himself to us. So it's, you know, two-way street. We're his sister. We're two partners. comes the f of sukus. We did everything. We we did chuva. We returned to him. We built the mishkan and we earned that hashem should take us back on the umptive of sukus. We're Hashem's mother. Okay. Now the Arizal teaches something very interesting that in your suka you should put the schulan in the north and a mana in the south. Just like the B mikdash. Just like the B mikdash. The shish writes in four places in takal and page. The kadusha of the is the kadusha of the bamed. question. Why is the kadusha of the suka like the basa mikdash? But based on what we've learned, it's very obvious the purpose of the suka is not just to commemorate the miracle of it. It's to commemorate the return of theina that rested on what? The mishkan. That means the suka is the the building of the suka is the mishkan. The building of the suka. That's why we do a dava after yam kipper the building of the sukas the mishkan and the return of theina is the return of the to the bikash and therefore says situated like the bameikt why because it's not a commemoration of the miracle it's remembering the rat that achieved when they built the mishka in the aftermath of the therefore ocean suggests Y you go to >> why that's the place that God selected to do what? To put you go to the mikdash. That's the place that God selected to put ashina. But on sukus, you go to the mikdash. That's the place that God selected to put ashina. No, you know where he puts a in your suka. On sukus. doesn't say that Hashem selected you as a place to put a because onis your is the mdash the isas it says it says it on it doesn't say it because the is your okay one amazing addition ready for this if it's not amazing you Hold me to it. Isn't that amazing? You get the free Portuguese mystery and majesty. >> You want the instead? Okay, fine. Ready for this? So, here it is. We build the Mishkan. We build the Mishkan, which is our suka. And then on the 15th of Nissan, we look up to the heavens and the is on our suka. Can you imagine the the is in the suka? question for you. So why do we have seven days and then it ends with some is there is there something more we need to do? There's one more thing we need to do. You ready for this? This is amazing. When Hashem told Mosha raid go down quickly your people are corrupt. Moshe said what they do? Hashem said they're serving Zara. What did Mosenu do to trick question? Nothing. He didn't believe Hashem. He didn't do anything to But when Moshenu went down and he saw them serving the Ael, what did he do to the Lis? Trick question. Nothing. But when Mushenu went down and he saw them serving theel, he saw the circles and the dancing. What did he do to the lit? He broke them. Ask theo when Hashem told him they were serving a what to do? Nothing. When he saw them, nothing. When they're dancing, yeah. Why? Because writes that, "Okay, big deal. They're serving a des you're toast. There's no way to recover from that. So in the aftermath of the we have a yum kipper. Okay, we got atonement. Hashem wants us again, but we need to uproot what we did completely. So we need to show Hashem that this time we no longer rejoice over sin. We rejoice with your Tory. So the grand finale of this whole season is not just not just the but shows that now we're making a different kind of now it's we're dancing now not about the but about that's the full culmination and tickle for the ego that comes in the on the final day of sukus which by the way also one last thing this time for real when you when you take your when you're done with your lines what do you do with your lines I don't know you the lula you burn the esro you make jam out of it do you kiss your esro goodbye no you don't have to do that even if you're personally very attached to it you don't how about when you're finished um Friday if you don't put on for 8 days you give it like a you have a ceremony to say goodbye when you finish a mitzvah there are no goodbye ceremonies why by the mitzvah of suka do you ceremoniously w you know have a say a whole yea and then you say till next year why the ceremony why do you so to speak take leave of the suka says hutner because the suka is the basa mikdash you can't just leave the bas mikdash but when you leave the ba mikdash you must take leave and spend the night in your mitzvah of Lina. You can't just abruptly leave the mitzvah. So since the is therefore and there's a special ceremonious way of taking leave of it. So this is the which is the happiest time of the year. We achieve the greatest success which is that Hashem wants us again which is the greatest that we have. Wishing everyone. Thank you so much. recording stop.