Sukkos

The mitzva of Sukka is unique, for it completely surrounds a person, from the soles of his feet to his head, encompassing all his garments, including his shoes. Moreover, every action performed in a sukka is a mitzva.

 

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The sukka is described as a cover from stream and rain.

 

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbes father, said about this: there are 248 positive mitzvos. The word zerem stream has the same letters as the number 247, alluding to the principle of not doing less than required in a mitzva. Conversely, matar rain has the same letters as the number 249, corresponding to the principle of do not add. The mitzva of sukka thus shelters a person from both do not subtract and do not add.

 

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