Rabbi Avi Geller - The Essence of Sukkot

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nice lecture is the topic is the essence of sukkot holiday sukkot we talked about Yom Kippur we spoke about rosh hashanah and now we come to the crown so basically sukkot is the crown of Jewish year no in Judaism we don't just commemorate events that happen in the past you know in America they like to commemorate Washington's Birthday Lincoln's birthday independence day if it doesn't happen to come out on a convenient day of the week he pushed off the mondays you have a nice long weekend alright but a Judaism the concept is to relive the events right it says no I gotta pass over that one is required to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt right uh we don't just talk about the bitterness in Egypt you burn your mouth has some horseradish right you don't talk about traveling the desert you out of your house it in the second for a week we stay up all night and choose to relive the revelation on Sinai some Sephardic Jews have a beautiful custom that the middle of the night and say to this knock on the door somebody comes in carrying a sack pint is back where you going I'm going to Israel we're coming from its right we go with Hebrews you're lying and they put their matches on the shoulders and they march around the table they put on a whole skit to make it come alive right so Judaism we don't just commemorate events but we actually relive them the Jewish here can be compared to someone traveling on a train and every holiday is to stop on the train and every holiday has a theme that

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