[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 10/15/07, T613K at aol.com <T613K at aol.com> wrote:
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>   From: Elliott Shevin eshevin at hotmail.com
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> You can't seriously be claiming that being in good health is just a
> "situational" grounds for keeping the mitzva of Sukkos the way "getting
> divorced" is a situational grounds for giving a get or becoming nidah is a
> situational grounds for going to the mikva.
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> *--Toby Katz
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> R. Akiva says Mikveh [a pun] Yisrael Hashem - mah mikvah metaheir eschem
af HKBH metaher es Yisrael

IOW in Jewish Lit a Mikvah reprsents a GOOD thing. It is not simply about a
de-nida-ization per se, but rather a more comprehensive concept of becoming
Tahor.  And the ULTIMATE mikvah is HKBH Himself.  So why would the analogy
conjure up anything negative? Aderrabbah just as R. Akiva points out that
immerision in a mikvah roots out tum'ah- so , too, immersion in a Sukkah
does wonderful things for the neshama, too.

Now back to my hobby horse. The better parellel to Sukkah imho is not to
yishuv EY but to  entry to the Beis haMIkdash where one is immersed in
kedusha.  This  goes along with the term "Sukkas David", that each Sukkah is
reminiscent not so much of anenei hakavod but rather of the Sanctuary -
hence the name Tabernacles.

Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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