Sukkot
The Sfat Emet on Parashat Sukkot, read on Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot — with one of this week's three questions for the two of you.
There is a strange logic to the timing of Sukkot. The harvest is in. The granaries are full. We are at the moment of the year when we should feel most secure inside our solid homes. And precisely then, the Torah commands us to leave them — to dwell in a temporary booth with a roof of branches, where we can see the stars through the gaps. The Sfat Emet, attentive as always to spiritual paradoxes, hears the teaching clearly. The deeper security has never been in walls. It is in the One who shelters us — who has sheltered us through every wilderness, with or without walls. The sukkah, in this reading, is not a renunciation of home. It is a more truthful home. To sit inside the temporary structure with joy is to remember what has always been holding us up.
What walls in our life have we been treating as our security — when actually, the deeper security holding us up is something else entirely?
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