Weekly Hashkafa Shiur #111 | A Deeper Understanding of Sukkos

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

uh before I begin um I want to just say that uh this year should be for a fortunate map for arena bus so and also this year should be for a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina Bossier City and yeshive in Israel wolf yes yes okay uh we are in the midst of circus so I think it's it's appropriate that I give a sheer about Sukkot or circus because really is a very strange holiday um when you really think about it um when you really think about it you know every holiday has a meaning it's usually tied to a significant historical event foreign the exits from Egypt you can't get too much more significant than that is try to what it is tied to matantara right it's tied to the giving of the Torah and then you have Hanukkah which is the and then you have Hanukkah which is the Tie to the Greeks trying to take over and the freedom from the Greeks to rededicate the temple and then you have porm of course with all Jewish people were saved from being destroyed by Homan these are very pivotal significant events okay so the two explanations I mean sucas is filled with mitches if I mean sucas is filled with mitches if you think about it you have the sukkah you have the four species right the rule of the asteroidas right then you have other things going on at surface you have the banging with shanas on the ground yes a lot of significant stuff on the score well we would expect some major historical events uh so what is the reason

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1. 0:00uh before I begin um I want to just say that uh this year should be…
2. 6:13Traditions you'll really have a grip and understanding of it all really makes sense so in…
3. 12:26so we see that it did happen that because mankind has free will it is possible…
4. 18:40now the sinning then was so bad that God decided to destroy the world but wait…
5. 24:54through as a tremendous flaming torch fire right and he went to as a smoking furnace…
6. 31:04so that was the next concern of Maisha first you got to save them right and…
7. 37:19non-jew you see so that's why there's such incredible by the uh by circus you see…
8. 43:28has a convergence of seven different aspects of holiness and I will tell you what the…
9. 49:45eclipse right in general it's bad for Asaf like I said but it's happening on the…
10. 55:56but in any case that is really very interesting you see these ideas well you now…

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