[Avodah] A Hassidic Thought about the Sukkah

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> Q: How is The Mitzvah of Sukkah so unique [almost] - in that it
> shares a quality in common with only 1 other mitzvah nowadays.
> A: Just like the Mikvah, the Sukkah encompasses our entire body.
> In the time of the Temple, we could experience being encompassed
> by the sanctity of the Bet Hamikdash, now we have only Mikvah
> and Sukkah.

Two comments:

1) Besides Sukkah, I've heard this also said about Tzitzis and about Yishuv Eretz Yisrael. (This is the first first time I've heard it about mikve.)

2) I think it was the Kotzker who responded to this by saying "Yes, but you can walk *out* of a Sukkah. You can't walk out of Shabbos!"

Akiva Miller