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size=2>>From RYGB's blog
<http://rygb.blogspot.com/2008/10/sukkah-q.html>:<BR>>> .....So why
do we celebrate Succot now<BR>>> at the beginning fo the rainy season if
we are putting orselves at<BR>>> risk of encountering this siman
rah?<BR><BR>> It's a good question, to which I never really paid any
attention. I<BR>> think that the logic is that the lack of rain is thus
clearly indicative<BR>> of Hashgocho, as would not be the case at another
time of year.<BR><BR>Tir'u baTov!<BR>-Micha<BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger </FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=2>>>>>><BR>I think the premise of the question is
incorrect. Sukkos falls late-ish once in a while only because we
stuck in an extra month to make Pesach fall late so that Pesach would be in the
spring and not in the winter. However normally Sukkos is an autumn, not a
winter, festival, and the calendar is so arranged that it normally is not [yet]
the rainy season when Sukkos comes. It's /not/ "supposed" to be a holiday
of the rainy season.</DIV>
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