Sermons:
Sukkot

Submitted by Renata Bursten
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I have never really understood Sukkot.

On a kibbutz, the harvest aspect is really apperant and that makes sense. But the booth bit - I never got it. Why make a major holiday out of a non-event (sitting in a hut) that happened thousands and thousands of times over 40 years of roaming through the desert?

This year, I had a real flash of understanding. I think that the cycle of tshuvah/tikkun that I have seriously undertaken this year from Rosh ha'Shanah through Yom Kippur got a big boost at Sukkot.

I was struggling to find a "Way" to Tikkun on a personal level, when along came a holiday celebrating a lack of permenance, a profound non-attachment (in the Zen sense) from all but the G-d spirit, in fact, celebrating change.

I see a pathway now.

Mi'Tachat ha Sukkah Neshama, Be'Yachat (Under a Sukkah of Spirit, Together).