Sunday, October 19, 2008
Stop Kicking the Sukkah
If we wanted shelter we would stay at home. We go outside to the sukkah to show that G-d is in charge. We are at His mercy.
More accurately, we are at our own mercy. The Mishna (Sukkah 2:9) teaches us that when we are rained upon in the sukkah it is with water that we ourselves have drawn and brought before Hashem. Ultimately, it is Hashem and our actions before Him that effect our environment.
Nonetheless, we often miss the point of the sukkah. We blame our environment, the people around us and the people that are not around us for everything that goes wrong.
The entrance test of the future will involve a sukkah. Contestants will be in invited to partake in it’s shade and immediately forced to leave by an intense heatwave. Those who kick the sukkah on the way out are ineligible to join the chosen people.
Hashem keeps things cool and Hashem heats things up. Don’t Kick the Sukkah.
