Sukkah

So you’ve been invited to a Sukkot holiday meal. What can you expect?

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 57 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

An overview of the laws for constructing a kosher sukkah.

How the mitzvah of building a sukkah is performed in three epochs of history: before the giving of the Torah, after the giving of the Torah and after Moshiach comes.

It is easy to repeat the faith we have been fed from a position of comfort, amid the like-minded and surrounded by smiling blooms. A more demanding task is to construct a fortress from that seminal faith in the great outdoors of our own lives, and not onl...

The power of the sukkah to release us from our emotional attachments to the material world and make us available for intimate relationships with others.

The mitzvah of dwelling in the sukkah returns us to simpler values and simpler times.

Question: For every mitzvah there is a blessing. Why do we not say a blessing when we build the sukkah? Response: While building the sukkah is a mitzvah, the mitzvah is not concluded until you actually dwell in it during Sukkot. Thus building the sukkah w...

Rabbi Dan Roth shows us how to leave our problems at the doorstep of the sukkah, and let G‑d be our “Ultimate Shelter.”

Though the body may have enjoyed Yom Kippur, it gets a bit envious. "Can I have a day like that," it asks, "when I can indulge in my relationship with G‑d?"