Rain on the First Night of Sukkos - Is Hashem Rejecting Us? - The Approach of the Aruch L'ner

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

Correct. >> Okay, everybody's glued to the uh weather reports, especially in the Northeast of the United States of America, because of the uh big possibility of rain on the first night of Sukkot, and then uh the first couple days of Sukkot. And aside from the halachic ramifications of whether we'll be able to make a yam the midst of Yeshiva Basuka, especially the first night, but there's also the philosophical implication of what the Gemara says in Sukkot on daf chof ches, the Gemara says, "What is it analogous to if it rains on Sukkot?" It's analogous to a eved sh' ba'al limzog kos l'rabo v'shafach l'keiton b'fanav. So, the Gemara describes the rain on Sukkot as a form of rejection. It's a way of uh Hashem rejecting us. It's a per- It's It's hurtful to Klal Yisrael if it rains on the first night of Sukkot. It feels like we're being uh rejected. By the way, the Bikkurei Yaakov wants to know, is it only the first night or is it throughout the Yom Tov of Sukkot? So, the Bikkurei Yaakov in Siman Tof Resh Lamed Tes of Katan Lamed Tes says, "It's not only the first night of Sukkot, whenever it rains on Sukkot, it's a Siman Klala." Even though the Gemara in Sukkot surprisingly does not discuss it, the Gemara in Ta'anit on daf dalet amud bet says that Rabbi Eliezer holds that we ask we mention Mashiv Haruach

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1. 0:00Correct. >> Okay, everybody's glued to the uh weather reports, especially in the Northeast of the…
2. 1:02rejected. By the way, the Bikkurei Yaakov wants to know, is it only the first night…
3. 2:33The ma- The master is drinking yayin. Yayin it represents midas hadin. The ma- The servant…
4. 4:04York the first day. I I know people who their Sukkot were there was water up…
5. 5:05if it was clear before Sukkot, and suddenly Sukkot comes, and the the sky is overcast…
6. 6:36We know mitzta'er is patur. What about the first night? Is mitzta'er patur the first night?…
7. 8:09Therefore, you can call it shafach kitniyot. Al pan av adaraba, siman bracha she' Hakadosh Baruch…
8. 9:10the whole Sukkos you should be worried. You should do teshuvah. You should be mefashfesh b'ma'asim.…
9. 10:42similar bracha that for sure it's a similar bracha. So if it doesn't rain, it's a…
10. 12:14in Maggid Meisharim told the Beis Yosef about one year that it rained on Sukkos. He…

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