Likkutei Sichot, Volume 24 - חג הסוכות

The joy of Sukkos is associated with both the mitzvah Lulav and to the water libation. There’s a debate as to which comes first; discover the spiritual meaning of these two perspectives.

All Jewish festivals put emphasis on the sensation of joy, as we say in our prayers and recite in our Kiddush, “Festivals for rejoicing, holidays and seasons for gladness.”Siddur, text of the Amidah and Kiddush for the Three Pilgrim Festivals. The holiday...

Two Torah commandments of the festival of Sukkos are to dwell seven days in a Sukkah, and to take the “four kinds,” the esrog, lulav, haddasim and aravos (the citron, palm-branch, myrtle and willow). The latter commandment is in reality not to be consider...