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Today’s daily dose is dedicated to the refuah shleimah of a three month old baby Yehuda ben Tzipora Simcha. May Hashem shower him with a complete healing amongst all of Klal Yisrael who are sick and suffering b’karov, b’rachamim, Amen.
All year round we strive to elevate our spirituality over physicality so that we merit ‘feeling Hashem’s presence’. We muster our inner forces to battle with our yetzer hara and await a sign of ‘approval’ by Hashem – a spiritual embrace, so to speak.
The Chag of Succot showers us with a free gift. Hashem envelops us with His Divine light and embrace unconditionally simply by us sitting in the succah, cheerfully enjoying Divrei Torah, good food and rest. It is here where many mundane activities are splashed with spirituality and we are able to experience the Oneness of Hashem – spirituality in the coarse physicality of this world.
Now that we have spiritually cleansed ourselves and broadcast “Hashem Hu HaElokim”, Hashem sends us a message on Succot; I love you too! We merit sitting in the Holy of Holies, the four walls that warmly cuddle us. Our bodies are hugged as well as our souls.
Following the Holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur we are stripped of our ‘old’ selves and can start anew; a new path, a refreshed perspective and a refurbished home. The Succah is the first place we enter, Succat Shalom – a place of peace. We are aligned with the needs of our G-dly soul and hopefully do not feel a strong ‘tug-of-war’ between body and soul.
In the Succah, we celebrate this peace treaty. We are one with Hashem and see Oneness in the world. All is from Hashem – all is good.
