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Why Do We Shake the Lulav? Sukkot’s Secret to Lasting Joy - Rabbi Yehoshua Simons

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  1. 0:00Everybody knows the famous midrash that the four species represent four different types of Jew. [music]…
  2. 1:02and that's the highest level. [music] So that's why we say the brah and the love.…
  3. 2:04and you could see how hard it was for him honestly. But he came, he really…
  4. 3:06that's when we carry it the full seven days. Otherwise, we carry it just six. That's…
  5. 4:08go through the process and put it all together. On rashashana, we were judged. Now, the…
  6. 5:10relationship with Hashem [music] and each other is alive, we haven't proven that it's well. We've…
  7. 6:11this is the day that we got the second l and thus we did to shuva…
  8. 7:12is the perfect time to build the suka. The joy is now tangible in the air.…
  9. 8:15take the surrounding joy and infuse it into our whole life into our mind for our…
  10. 9:18if it's Shabbat and thus the takana stands. Now, you may ask then why did we…

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