What If You Hate Sitting In The Sukkah?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, it's Rabbi Laskin with that question and answer series. What if you hate sitting in the sukkah? Are you failing Sukkot? I guess what what he means by saying uh are you failing Sukkot, meaning are you not really fulfilling uh the mitzvah properly? Well, of course, even though it's a mitzvah of simcha, you have to do all of your mitzvahs with simcha. Um the Maharal says the only s'char or you get Maharal says the only s'char or you get for a mitzvah is because of the zrizus of the mitzvah. So, if you hate it, let me put it this way. Given a choice between doing the mitzvah of sukkah and hating it and not doing the mitzvah of sukkah, should you do the mitzvah of sukkah? Yes, you should. Should you do the mitzvah of sukkah and hate it? No, absolutely not. Obviously, that's uh a mitzvah should be something delightful. So, the first thing I say is um it's ratzon Hashem.

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1. 0:00Hi, it's Rabbi Laskin with that question and answer series. What if you hate sitting in…
2. 0:30Maharal says the only s'char or you get for a mitzvah is because of the zrizus…
3. 1:02um it's ratzon Hashem. Hashem wants us to do this. So, that alone should be enough.…
4. 1:33to me the the simplest explanation. But uh if I can give you one thing to…
5. 2:04prose aleinu Sukas Shelomecha. Hashem is protecting us and Hashem is over us and watching for…
6. 2:34your Sukkah as comfortable and enjoyable as you can. And and if you still just don't…
7. 3:04So, even though I don't enjoy it, I'm glad that I have the opportunity to help…

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