Sukkos – כד הקמח

The Sukkah is a way for one to gain Olam Hazeh and Olam Habah, and that can only be accomplished through the Torah Hakdosha. Therefore, the Halachos and aspects of Sukkah are a Remez to the Halachos and aspects of the Torah, and Klal Yisroel’s obligation to learn Torah. The Sukkah must have more shade than sunlight, as a Remez that one must dwell in the “התורה צל – “the “shade of the Torah.” In order for a Sukkah to be Kosher, it must have at least three walls, which correspond to the Torah Shebiksav’s three components: Torah, Nevi’im, and Kesuvim, as it says in Yirmiyah 33:25 “ולילה יומם בריתי לא אם. “The distance from the floor of the Sukkah to the roof cannot be less than ten Tefachim – the ten Tefachim is a Remez to the Aseres (10) Hadibros. The width of a Sukkah must be a minimum of 7 Tefachim, a Remez to the seven branches of wisdom in the Torah. The minimum size of a wall of the Sukkah is seven Tefachim by ten Tefachim, a total of seventy Tefachim (7x10=70), a Remez to the לתורה פנים' ע, the seventy faces of the Torah. We are obligated to dwell in the Sukkah for the entire Yom Tov, day and night, as a Remez to the Mitzvah of Limud Hatorah, where one is required to learn day and night, as it says in Yehoshua 1:8 “ ולילה יומם בו והגית” – “And you shall toil in it (the Torah Hakdosha) day and night.” Women are exempt from the Mitzvah of Sukkah because they are exempt from the Mitzvah of Limud Hatorah. (Although women do have an obligation to learn the Torah in order to know the Halachos pertaining to them, they don’t have an obligation to toil in the Torah like men, even if they already know all the Halachos).