"You shall dwell in booths for seven days"—Leviticus 23:42.
We are commanded to dwell in a sukkah (booth) for the seven days of the holiday of Sukkot. Women are exempt from this mitzvah.
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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)
Day 57: Positive Commandment 168
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I no longer see a table, a chair, a lamp... only the letters of the Divine utterances [which give existence and life to the physical existence]
–Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi to his grandson, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, shortly before his passing on Tevet 24, 5583 (1812)
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