{"id":14838,"date":"2026-01-12T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=14838"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:36:02","slug":"an-article-for-sukkot","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/an-article-for-sukkot\/","title":{"rendered":"892. An Article for\u00a0Sukkot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cYou shall sit in Sukkot<\/em> [huts] for seven days; every citizen in Israel shall sit in Sukkot<\/em> so your generations may know that I placed the sons of Israel in Sukkot<\/em> when I brought them out from the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God\u201d (Leviticus 23:42-43). Rabbi Eliezer says, \u201cActual Sukkot<\/em>,\u201d and Rabbi Akiva, \u201cClouds of glory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can there be such a gap between them? One interprets a corporeal Sukkah<\/em> [sing. for Sukkot<\/em>], and one interprets a spiritual Sukkah<\/em>, which is \u201cclouds of glory.\u201d However, they are Panim<\/em> [anterior\/face] and Achoraim<\/em> [posterior\/back]. On the part of the awakening from below, the making of the Sukkah<\/em> is an actual Sukkah<\/em>. On the part of the awakening from above, it is the \u201cseven clouds of glory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSit\u201d means \u201cdwell,\u201d as in \u201cThe concealed things belong to the Lord our God.\u201d The sages of ethics interpret that the matter of \u201cGo out from permanent residence and sit in temporary residence\u201d is so they will know and notice that this world is like a motel and temporary lodging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is written in Psalms: \u201cYou hide them in concealment of the face from the conspiracies of man; You conceal them in a Sukkah<\/em> [hut] from the strife of tongues.\u201d RASHI interpreted \u201cthe conspiracies of man\u201d as \u201cthe connection of wicked, who connive in order to harm them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should understand what is \u201cconcealment of the face,\u201d since the rule is that the face is revealed, and how is the face related to the Creator? Also, what is the meaning of \u201cYou conceal them in a Sukkah<\/em> from the strife of tongues\u201d? What is the difference between Sukkah<\/em> and concealment of the face? We find the words, \u201csitting in the upper concealment,\u201d and the meaning of \u201cupper concealment\u201d; what is \u201clower concealment\u201d? We also find, \u201cHis concealment is straightness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should ask, If it is concealment, how do we know that it is straightness and not a circle (perhaps this is the meaning of Yosher<\/em> and Igulim<\/em> [straightness and circles, respectively], where in the quality of Igulim<\/em> there is no concealment, but the light shines equally to the small and to the great, and this is the Reshimot<\/em> [recollection] from the world of Tzimtzum<\/em> [restriction])?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStraightness\u201d means according to the line that was done in the Tzimtzum<\/em>. Accordingly, what we see, that there is concealment, is straight, as in \u201cstraight thinking.\u201d (The matter of Panim<\/em> means revealing of the Panim<\/em> and concealment of the Panim<\/em>.) The Sukkah<\/em> is made of four walls and a thatch, but the place of the Sukkah<\/em> is ready, for one can build one\u2019s sukkah on the ground, which is the substance, and on this substance we make a form, the form of a Sukkah<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should understand the meaning of walls and the thatch, which is waste of barn and vineyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is known that there are four sides, and above and below. These are called HGT<\/em> and Malchut<\/em>, and Netzah<\/em> above and Hod<\/em> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Shema<\/em> reading, we say \u201cIn the name of the Lord, God of Israel, Mi-KeEl<\/em> [Michael] to my right, and Gavri-El<\/em> [Gabriel] to my left, and Uri-El<\/em> [Uriel] before me, and Raf-El<\/em> [Rafael] behind, and over my head, the Shechina<\/em> of God.\u201d Why is nothing said concerning below, which corresponds to Hod<\/em>? Below is discerned as the ground, which is man. If he does a Kosher<\/em> [proper] Sukkah<\/em>, he is regarded as Hod<\/em>, called \u201cthe beauty of the Sukkah<\/em>.\u201d But if not, the Hod<\/em> [beauty] becomes Daveh<\/em> [pain-stricken, same letters as Hod<\/em>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, nothing should be implied concerning the place of the earth. Rather, what one extends and aims in all five Behinot<\/em> [discernments\/qualities], in this way it will appear in the earth, which is the quality of man, who extends from the root of Malchut<\/em>, called \u201cshe has nothing of her own.\u201d In other words, she has nothing of herself except what she is given. Thus, it depends on the form of the Sukkah<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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