What If You Hate Sitting In The Sukkah?

Hi, this is David with that question answer series. What if you hate sitting in the suka? Are you failing sukus? I guess what he means by saying uh are you failing sukus? Meaning are you not really fulfilling uh the mitzvah properly? Well, of course you have to do all of your mitzvah. Um the Maharal says the only you get for a mitzvah is because of the zis of the mitzvah. So if you hate it, let me put it this way. Given a choice between doing the mitzvah of suka and hating it and not doing the mitzvah suka, should you do the mitzvah suka? Yes, you should. Should you do the mitzvah of suka and hate it? No, absolutely not. Obviously that's uh a mitzvah should be something delightful. So the first thing I say is um it's hashem hashem wants us to do this. So that alone should be enough right? If you uh you don't like doing the dishes but you know it'll make your wife happy. So you might do the dishes not because you like doing the dishes but because you know that it makes your wife happy. So Kar wants you to sit in the suka. So that alone should be enough of a motivation for you to sit in the suka. So that's the to me the the simplest explanation. But uh if I can give you one thing to try to focus on is that look up at the and remember that it's a week of the year that we sit without a roof. Can't live without a roof. A house is a roof. If you don't have a roof, you don't have a house. Is the roof. Hashem is protecting us and Hashem is over us and watching for us. What could be better than that? I don't know about you, but I don't have that many infinite friends. And when one of them says, "I want to spend time with you and have a special relationship with you," I think it's something that we should all want to take advantage of. So find what you enjoy. If there are special foods that you enjoy, there's certain music you enjoy, things you want to do, do it out in the suka as much as possible. Make your suka as comfortable and enjoyable as you can. And uh and if you still just don't like it, well, you know, there are things that we do that we're not crazy about, but we do them anyway. when one of my kids would throw up in the middle of the night and they'd come to my room. I didn't want to get out of bed and deal with all the vomit and change all the sheets and clean them up. But I love my kids. So even though I don't enjoy it, I'm glad that I have the opportunity to help take care of my children. When we do what we know we're supposed to do, it can only be a good thing. in Yantifith.