<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">From: Elliott Shevin <a href="mailto:eshevin@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </font></div></div></div><br><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#0000ff"></font></font></div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" lang="0" size="2"><br><b>--Toby
Katz<br>=============</b></font></div><br></blockquote></div>R. Akiva says Mikveh [a pun] Yisrael Hashem - mah mikvah metaheir eschem af HKBH metaher es Yisrael<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
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