[Avodah] Insight Into Succos From RSRH

[Prof. Levine]

Rabbi S. R. Hirsch writes in the Horeb

To the powerful and wealthy, the succah says, "Do not rely on your 
fortune; it is transitory. Even your castle is no more secure than a 
succah. If you are safe, it is because God shelters you as he as He 
did your ancestors when they had but a booth to protect them against 
one of earth's harshest environments. If you can do that, opulence 
will not blind you the glow of God's beneficence.

To the poor and downtrodden, the succah says, "Are you more helpless 
than the millions of your ancestors in the Wilderness, without food, 
water, or permanent shelter? What sustained them? Who provided for 
them? Look around you at your succah's frail walls and at the stars 
you seen through its rustling roof. Let it remind you that Israel 
became a nation living in such "mansions."


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