DO SUKKOT RIGHT

we have our holidays we have sukot we have to prepare to make sure that it's really comfortable how comfortable how com aable as have to be comfortable enough for you to sleep in why cuz that's the Commandment that's the Commandment you have to sleep inside the Suka the guy the man the man has to sleep in the Suka the wife is not obligate to sleep in a Suka now the uh thank you for coming this is a holocaust Survivor so please rise give some cavod okay okay make make it make it uh please not a surprise you should have told me would have prepared let him sit please see let's say it's a uh one of the most amazing things is when I uh his wife we just met recently and she told me that uh they're watching the have all types of people watching the so Yip you're obligated to sleep in the Suka it's very very important if you can't sleep in a Suka because it's too hot it's not a Suka it's a tent for camping so you have to put so what so this year I'm going to try see put something we have the fan already I'm going to try to seebe put the air conditioner in Suka it's so hot but you have to do it now what happens I asked I have a few students that live in apartments in apartments and uh not everybody allows not everybody has a balcony and even if you have a balcony not everyone allows people to build a Suka on a balcony and this is not Israel where no one you know in Israel you build you don't ask the landlord anything you just do whatever you want here in America you do whatever you want they take down your Suka so you can't do whatever you want so uh as far as Suka if you're able to build build obviously if you can't build then to eat you have to find a place to eat you have to find a place to eat your Suka you're not allowed to eat bread outside of the sukka you have to find a place to eat and sleep if you can't find a sukat sleep in then you sleep then you P You're an you stay at home now if your M don't have any friends and you can't find someone to host you to go to their Suka and have there or you just can't make it there you don't feel good just a real reason not an excuse like you don't feel like you know it's a uh you know like me where you're suffering at 72 degrees you have a real you have a real reason of why you can't go you don't have uh somebody you know no one's inviting you whatever the reason is then you're an then you could eat at home but in reality you are missing out on one of the biggest so you have to do whatever you can to find a way to at the very least eat the and in America one of the advantages that we have is that it's very easy to be Jewish even though there's 40% anti-Semitism it's still very easy to be Jewish in most of America so almost every single place synagogue sometimes restaurants they have a Suka so you can go eat at the Suka so even if you don't have any friends you have a synagogue so go to the synagogue Suka synagogue has a Suka the second thing about sukot is that uh there is a little bit of a uh confusion about what's about the uh these sukot that they made popular over the last few years I forgot what they're called um but they you put you pretty much put the pieces together it's like Lego uh and they have three strings on the side because you're supposed to have something that's like the uh equivalent of a wall and there of how it's supposed to be a difference in space between each string the problem is with those strings or the the felt is that if wind comes the felt moves the strings move and if it moves even an inch it's p the whole the whole Su is so you have to replace those things uh that's what comes with the Suka itself when you buy it from the store uh so you have to replace it either with metal poles that you connect from one side to the other on all three sides or with like a uh plastic or a wooden fence like small like 1ot fence I went to a Home Depot yesterday uh it's like 10 bucks 12 bucks each one of these little fences you get you know depends how big your suai is three four five of them however many you need and you have a Kosh Suka the reason why because if you stay with just those strings you might as well stay at home there no Suka so it's a very very big Mitzvah but it's a very easy Mitzvah to ruin very easy mitvah to just not do right so that's the second thing uh third thing is it's extremely important to learn to in a Suka you have to spend especially the man the man has to spend as much time in a Suka as possible to such an extent that the MIM said you shouldn't leave the Suka at all the whole holiday even to go to the bathroom in the old days they would go next to the Suka they go next to the they would cover their obviously but uh they would not they would try to do everything possible not to leave the Suka even to go toet everything that would do inside the Suka said there such being in the Suka you shouldn't leave it now today obviously things are a little bit different you still go to B and so on but you get the point the point is be in the Suka as much as possible if you're learning learn in the Suka if you're eating eat in the Suka as much time as you could spend in the Su spend that's so that's why it's good that tomorrow before the H starts uh you know you have only a day and a half before the H starts spend as much time as you can preparing you need to put a few extra um fans put a few extra fans put if you could put aition put air whatever you got to put in there just to make it comfortable because if it's not comfortable it's not a Suka so those are the few things [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] need for Miami miam [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] all [Music]