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The Aluminum Sukkah

By Avraham Berkowitz

"I couldn't contain my emotions. I began to cry... I had only meant to make the sukkah more beautiful!"

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Reader Comments

Posted: Oct 23, 2005

Alluminium sukkah

Wow, what an awe inspiring story, just right for the end of Tishrei.

Posted By Anonymous, Manchester, United Kingdom

Posted: Oct 23, 2005

Truly a heart waaarming story. thanx... a gut yom tov and best regards,

Posted By Molly Resnick, NY, NY
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Posted: Oct 24, 2005

Thanks-keep writing

Avraham, Thank you so much for writing,
Now that we have left Moscow, we look forward to reading more of your articles and hearing your tales and stories that have always inspired us.
Best,

Posted By Mellisa J, NY, NY
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Posted: Aug 25, 2008

beautiful lesson
thanks

Posted By inspired
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Posted: Oct 5, 2009

and the lesson is

so it's "love and sincerity" that count, that give G-d the "utmost pleasure" - not doing the mitzvah strictly according to halacha

Posted By RD, bklyn, usa

Posted: Oct 5, 2009

To RD

Yes, when a person, through no fault of his or her own, is ignorant of the correct halachos, G-d counts their pure and sincere intentions as equal to or better than one doing the mitzvah with all of its details.

In other words, G-d has "true pleasure" from a) Jews doing what He told them to, and b) Jews doing their best to do what they think G-d wants them to do.

Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Sep 21, 2010

strict halacha

of course G-d loved this mans deeds, but to reply to some remarks made about intention without halacha: it is still incumbent upon us to learn and abide by halacha strictly AND continue doing it with love. If a husband would bring his wife a toolbox for her birthday out of the utmost love, of course she would understand he misunderstood her desires and did it lovingly, but he needs to the best of his ability strive to understand and fulfill her desires - that is true love, if he were uninterested in learning what she needs and remain ignorant giving her a yearly dose of tools sure that he was doing good because its what HE thinks is good, that is missing the point. This man understood his error and lovingly changed to fulfill g-ds original will, in this way g-d sees that this man was truly doing everything out of love up until now.

Posted By Anonymous, jerusalem, N.A.

Posted: Sep 26, 2010

the sukkah

what is done through the heart is always best.

Posted By Anonymous

Posted: Oct 10, 2011

I'm smiling!

Cool story!

Posted By Harry J Shelhamer