Symbols of Sukkos #3 - Water Libations and the Joy of Life

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

so welcome to the third segment of the uh symbols of circus series third and final so in the last and previously in the first uh in the first two classes we developed some related themes we talked about first of all that there are two aspects of Circus Circus commemorates the actual perhaps that the Jewish the actual perhaps that the Jewish people dwelling it commemorates the Clouds Of Glory that God protected us with in the desert and uh and these dual aspects um find themselves also in the the way we look at Circus in terms of the calendar cycle we see sukis as the end of the three holidays which coincide with the agricultural landmarks circus being the agricultural landmarks circus being the last the has the time of gathering in your grain it's a time when a person might get a little bit um arrogant over all that they have grown with their great uh planting skills and and uh and therefore says the rash bomb the sukkah reminds us of that we used to be in the desert just dwelling in Huts completely um with nothing and uh and the land that we have is the land that God brought us to and that God gave us and anything to and that God gave us and anything that we have comes from God at the same time we have sukis being at the end of the Yaman the high holidays followers it's a time where we celebrate our achieving atonement and uh and more specifically according to the Vilma gone it was the time that after the sing of the golden calf the clouds of gory which had Departed now returned to the people and that

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1. 0:04so welcome to the third segment of the uh symbols of circus series third and final…
2. 4:06achieved was really over that that idea that they could that they were able now to…
3. 8:42sukos is appreciating that what we have is provided by God um in this case it…
4. 13:21of the water wanna did not see a Sim class based on never saw a celebration…
5. 18:00could sort her Wheat by the Light of the of the of these of these lamps…
6. 22:42that to something so common to to show your Devotion to God right seems it seems…
7. 27:19be involved in something meaningful in serving God that's truly something to celebrate and that's truly…
8. 31:56try you know to to have in mind that we're that what we're doing is for…
9. 36:36and and once a person is is is back in the throne room is back in…
10. 41:12doing a Mitzvah because it's the will of God eating my eating even my sleeping can…

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