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Pardes Yehuda

Succos Story; the Kedusha of the Succah

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The First Rebbe of Stretin, Rav Yehuda Tzvi, had a son Rav Eliezer, the Rebbe of Azipoli, who always told the following story every Succos: There was a Yid who had a tremendous love and attachment to the Mitzvah of Succah, that he could not bring himself to say goodbye to the Succah, as it was his Gan Eden in this world. Every year he would stay in the Succah way past Succos until the cold and rains made it impossible to stay, and he finally had to part from the Succah. One year, this Yid prayed to Hashem that it should be possible for him to be in his Succah all year. That year after Succos, the Yid was basking in the Kedusha of the Succah, and prayed that he could be here all year, when the winter wind and cold arrived, Hashem performed a miracle, and the Yid together with his Succah were flown to a distant place where it was warm all year. The Rebbe concluded that the Yid is still in his Succah, enjoying his Gan Eden! This can be the intention of Dovid Hamelech 'For He will conceal me in His Succah.' To feel the Kedusha of Gan Eden in his Succah. Dovid Hamelech is praying אוֹתָהּ אֲבַקֵשׁ שִׁבְתִּי בְבֵית ה' כָל יְמֵי חַיִּי. I shall dwell in the house of Hashem all the days of my life... This is alluding to the Succah, that he shall keep with him the inspiration a whole year. (Yehuda Z. Klitnick)

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