FESTIVALS AND SEASONS OF THE YEAR: Succot: The mitzvah of succah can bring us to experience the radiance of God’s abundance through ruach hakodesh, the spirit of holiness. This experience is a special state of enlightenment granted to certain people when they are worthy of contact with levels of Godliness that transcend the levels of attainment they have reached through their own efforts. For there are levels of Divine wisdom that are granted to people simply through God’s beneficence, without their having to work to acquire that level specifically. Indeed man’s whole task in this world is to work on himself until he is worthy of being granted these transcendental levels. This is the true joy of the World to Come (21:3).
מוֹעֲדֵי ה' – סֻכּוֹת
א. עַל־יְדֵי מִצְוַת סֻכָּה זוֹכִין לְשֶׁפַע אֱלֹקִי שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת רוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ, הַיְנוּ שֶׁזּוֹכִין לְהַשִּׂיג שֵׂכֶל גָּדוֹל שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת מַקִּיפִין שֶׁל הַמֹּחַ, שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת הַשֵּׂכֶל שֶׁבָּא לָאָדָם בְּלֹא שׁוּם הַקְדָּמָה אֶלָּא עַל־יְדֵי שֶׁפַע אֱלֹקִי, שֶׁכָּל עֲבוֹדַת הָאָדָם בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה הוּא בִּשְׁבִיל זֶה, כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּזְכֶּה לְהַשִּׂיג הַמַּקִּיפִין שֶׁהֵם עִקַּר שַׁעֲשׁוּעַ עוֹלָם הַבָּא: (לק"א סי' כ"א אות א' ג' י"א)
FESTIVALS AND SEASONS OF THE YEAR: Succot:
The mitzvah of succah can bring us to experience the radiance of God’s abundance through ruach hakodesh, the spirit of holiness. This experience is a special state of enlightenment granted to certain people when they are worthy of contact with levels of Godliness that transcend the levels of attainment they have reached through their own efforts. For there are levels of Divine wisdom that are granted to people simply through God’s beneficence, without their having to work to acquire that level specifically. Indeed man’s whole task in this world is to work on himself until he is worthy of being granted these transcendental levels. This is the true joy of the World to Come (21:3).