Following Yom Kippur we celebrate Sukkot, the Festival of Tabernacles, "the season of our rejoicing".
"In the Sukkot (booths) you shall dwell for seven days" (Leviticus, 23:42)
The Sukkot remind us of the clouds of glory that surrounded and protected our people, after leaving Egypt, during their forty years of wandering through the desert on the way to the promised land. It inspires us to believe that today too, G-d protects us in His special way, and that it why the Jewish people have outlived the greatest adversaries in all generations.
The commandment of dwelling, eating and spending time in the Sukkah is unique in that the entire person in involved in the commandment, or mitzvah. The mitzvah of Sukkah encompasses every part of the body. Every limb and cell of the person is completely submerged, surrounded and encompassed.
