Sunday, October 16, 2011

CLD #404


For the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara & Binyamin ben Blanka.
When one goes into the Sukkah, they go through a process of Purity, a process of cleaning oneself from sin.
Therefore, the Sukkah is a place of Purity. But Why?
Because it is like one of 4 things that makes the literal human body be immersed/used up fully. What are these four things?
1) A Mikveh (Rambam)
2) A Sukkah (Chazal)
3) Shabbat (Chazal) &
4) Torah (Chazal).

Modern Day Mikveh.
The grandfather of the Chida (Rav Chaim Yosef David Azulai), Rabbi Avraham Azulai teaches that when someone has the sudden thirst to do a Chet (sin), he/she is under Ruach Shtut (spirit/wind of ‘stupidness’). If one takes a second and thinks about what life is all about, he/she sees that Hashem has placed them there for a reason and there is no such thing as ‘go with the flow.’ So if Hashem gave me life, than obviously there is something in this world for me to enjoy because Hashem is ‘all good.’ Then with this understanding, we see that it makes sense when Chazal tell us that one is under Ruach Shtut when wanting to do a Chet/Avon/Pesha (the three types of sins).
SO, the physical nature of wind is simple. It is the pressures on gases that cause air to move throughout the globe’s atmosphere. We can see that wind is only active above water. But in water the wind cannot be activated, it cannot be pushed to move air at all!

So why is a Mikveh, a spiritual bath, the place where one is Tahor (purified)? Because the Ruach Shtut cannot go inside it! And what is the process of going into the Mikveh: Being COMPLETELY immersed in the waters of the bath/pool. The same with the Sukkah. The entire human body is immersed in the Mitzavh of sitting in the Sukkah because the Sukkah engulfs the body from all directions!
This is another sign of Hashem’s love and care for Am Yisrael, because He protects us from all directions.

The Sukkah is not as simple as it looks.
This causes an infinite amount of Simcha!!! Look how much Hashem loves us!!!

Chag Sameach :D!

Inspiration: A Bachur (Yeshiva Student) from Shuva Yisrael Yeshiva.

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