Dovid Hamelech says in Tehilim 27:5 d k ªq §a i ¦p¥p §t §v ¦i i ¦k (v zf ohkv,) ‘For He will conceal me in His Succah.’ To explain this meaning of this Posuk, the Sifsei Chaim, by Hagaon Rav Chaim Freidlander, explains another pasuk in that chapter the Tefillah of: .i©i ©g i ¥n §i l ̈k 'd zi ¥a §a i ¦Y §a ¦y W ¥w ©a £` D ̈z e` 'd z ¥` ¥n i ¦z §l ©` ̈y z ©g ©` “One thing I ask of Hashem, that I seek – I shall dwell in the house of Hashem all the days of my life...” The question arises: How would it be possible for the King of Israel to daven that his desire would be to dwell in the house of Hashem all the days of his life, when he has to rule over the country? The answer is that Dovid wanted to constantly feel that he was in the House of Hashem, and that he was sheltered under Hashem’s protection. His life was devoted to Hashem; and it was as if he was always in the House of Hashem. Hence his request was: i ¦k d k ªq §a i ¦p¥p §t §v ¦i – ‘For He will conceal me in His Succah.’ Dovid Hamelech is one of the seven Ushpizin, and his request was to feel the Kedusha of the Succah throughout the year. So too, must a man continuously see himself sitting underneath Hashem’s shelter. On Succos, one brings his entire life – eating and drinking, sleeping, even his conversations – inside to nestle under the shade of the Succah. Therefore, after the holy days, this is his perfect protection against the Yetzer Harah, by dragging his whole self, body and soul, in an act of Avodas Hashem into the Succah to be joyously enveloped for one week within a mitzvah. With this outlook of the Mitzvahs Succa, it brings the results of Yom Kippur to become ‘real’. It proves that our Yom Kippur wasn’t just an episode. It was an act which finds the full expression with an uplifting Succos.
Succos Story; 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 .i©i ©g i ¥n §i l ̈k 'd zi ¥a §a i ¦Y §a ¦y W ¥w ©a £` D ̈z e` 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)
