Ahhhh!! were finally cleansed!! yom kippur has passed and G-d has forgiven our sins!! woohoo !! sooo now what? what are we supposed to do now?
we get up and move out of our homes into temporary tents ... ummm ok thats cool.. but how does that show what we should be feeling just four days after all our sins were completely thrown away?
LEt's rewind a little...
ROsh Hashana we were filled with simcha.. y? because we were annointing our king
yom kippur we were filled with simcha because that king forgave all our sins...
and now were sitting here in the succah and what do we have to do? be besimcha!! HA ..zman simchaseinu!
What do these three things have in common?
it seems that our avodah for the past month was to be working on our simcha.. also lets not forget that just a few weeks ago we read in ki savo about the klalos (curses) that befell klal yisroel. and wat was the reason that we deserved them? .. "tachas asher lo avadeta es Hashem ELokecha beSIMCHA uv'tuv levav" why do we get cursed ? because we werent serving hashem with SIMCHA..
but what really is this simcha were speaking of ? does it mean to be happy ? does is mean to throw a party ? to walk around smiling and jumping? what is it?
well honestly theres no real translation for the word.. but maybe we can find an explanation.....
we know that it doesnt mean to be happy .. how do we know this? ahhh from our old buddy .. yonah hanavi!!
chazal tell us that in order for a navi to receive nevuah he must be in a state of SIMCHA.. At the end of sefer Yonah, the navi asks HAshem to take his life..he wanted to die!
ummm do u think that he was smiling from ear to ear and jumping around with happiness? i think not! so how could it be that he was speaking to G-d when he obviously wasnt happy? The answer is because simcha doesnt mean happiness the way we view it.. so what does it mean?
am i annoying yet? CHANIE just tell us the answer!!! ha sorry but im gonna be even more annoying cuz i dont knwo the answer!!! haha
but this is what im thinking.. The answer possibly lies in our original question why are we going out to the succah after being cleansed from all our sins?
Rav Pincus brings down that we say every day in shmoneh esrei... melech , ozer , u'moshea , u'magen..
MELECH.. is rosh hashana we annoint our melech, our king!
OZER.. is aseres yemei teshuva ..when Hashem helps us with what we need to work on, because Hes so close by (dirshu Hashem behimatzo..)
MOSHEA... thats yom kippur where He mamash saves our lives by erasing our sins
and finally...
MAGEN .... SUCCOS!!!
once were forgiven for all our sins, we now trust Hashem so much that we get up from our homes and move out into a succah with flimsy walls.. to show HAshem that He is the one who is MAgen ! HE alone is the reason why we are safe and alive.. and its not our homes that protect us; its Him!
and thats the greatest simcha.. knowing that Hakadosh Boruch Hu is in charge, taking that deep breath of no worries because our lives are in His hands.. thats the simcha of this time.. the time after we have been forgiven .. we rejoice in the fact that Hakadosh Boruch Hu wiped away our sins and is now protecting us with every step we take from here on;
Yonah too trusted in Hashem ..so much so, that he was besimcha even at the time he was asking to be killed , because even though he was suffering, he still knew and was comforted by the fact that Hashem is in charge..
Rebbe Nachman said it perfectly.. Mitzvah gedolah lehiyos BESIMCHA tamid!! its a mitzvah to always be BESIMCHA ...which means IN simcha.
First of all where does he get that its a mitzvah? (its not one of the 613?)
and why does he say IN simcha? (he should have said mitzvah gedolah lehiyos SAMEACH tamid!)
i think that..Because being inside something means being surrounded by it .. just like a succah!! so being IN simcha means being suorrounded by the idea that Hashem is the one and only protector of everything!! understanding THAT and reminding ourselves of THAT is a mitzvah temidis.. to know GOd is one and Hes the one running the show and nothing else! (that may be why he also says the word tamid!! )
thats what succos is all about .. to look at the flimsy walls of our succah and realize that we are being surrounded by the walls of protectioin .. GOD protection .....and only one thing is really keeping us safe .. HAKADOSH BORUCH HU!
Knowing THAT! is the greatest simcha of all!!
may Hashem be magen that the simcha we feel now will be protected and last throughout the whole year!!
TAMID BESIMCHA!!
~chana shira
we get up and move out of our homes into temporary tents ... ummm ok thats cool.. but how does that show what we should be feeling just four days after all our sins were completely thrown away?
LEt's rewind a little...
ROsh Hashana we were filled with simcha.. y? because we were annointing our king
yom kippur we were filled with simcha because that king forgave all our sins...
and now were sitting here in the succah and what do we have to do? be besimcha!! HA ..zman simchaseinu!
What do these three things have in common?
it seems that our avodah for the past month was to be working on our simcha.. also lets not forget that just a few weeks ago we read in ki savo about the klalos (curses) that befell klal yisroel. and wat was the reason that we deserved them? .. "tachas asher lo avadeta es Hashem ELokecha beSIMCHA uv'tuv levav" why do we get cursed ? because we werent serving hashem with SIMCHA..
but what really is this simcha were speaking of ? does it mean to be happy ? does is mean to throw a party ? to walk around smiling and jumping? what is it?
well honestly theres no real translation for the word.. but maybe we can find an explanation.....
we know that it doesnt mean to be happy .. how do we know this? ahhh from our old buddy .. yonah hanavi!!
chazal tell us that in order for a navi to receive nevuah he must be in a state of SIMCHA.. At the end of sefer Yonah, the navi asks HAshem to take his life..he wanted to die!
ummm do u think that he was smiling from ear to ear and jumping around with happiness? i think not! so how could it be that he was speaking to G-d when he obviously wasnt happy? The answer is because simcha doesnt mean happiness the way we view it.. so what does it mean?
am i annoying yet? CHANIE just tell us the answer!!! ha sorry but im gonna be even more annoying cuz i dont knwo the answer!!! haha
but this is what im thinking.. The answer possibly lies in our original question why are we going out to the succah after being cleansed from all our sins?
Rav Pincus brings down that we say every day in shmoneh esrei... melech , ozer , u'moshea , u'magen..
MELECH.. is rosh hashana we annoint our melech, our king!
OZER.. is aseres yemei teshuva ..when Hashem helps us with what we need to work on, because Hes so close by (dirshu Hashem behimatzo..)
MOSHEA... thats yom kippur where He mamash saves our lives by erasing our sins
and finally...
MAGEN .... SUCCOS!!!
once were forgiven for all our sins, we now trust Hashem so much that we get up from our homes and move out into a succah with flimsy walls.. to show HAshem that He is the one who is MAgen ! HE alone is the reason why we are safe and alive.. and its not our homes that protect us; its Him!
and thats the greatest simcha.. knowing that Hakadosh Boruch Hu is in charge, taking that deep breath of no worries because our lives are in His hands.. thats the simcha of this time.. the time after we have been forgiven .. we rejoice in the fact that Hakadosh Boruch Hu wiped away our sins and is now protecting us with every step we take from here on;
Yonah too trusted in Hashem ..so much so, that he was besimcha even at the time he was asking to be killed , because even though he was suffering, he still knew and was comforted by the fact that Hashem is in charge..
Rebbe Nachman said it perfectly.. Mitzvah gedolah lehiyos BESIMCHA tamid!! its a mitzvah to always be BESIMCHA ...which means IN simcha.
First of all where does he get that its a mitzvah? (its not one of the 613?)
and why does he say IN simcha? (he should have said mitzvah gedolah lehiyos SAMEACH tamid!)
i think that..Because being inside something means being surrounded by it .. just like a succah!! so being IN simcha means being suorrounded by the idea that Hashem is the one and only protector of everything!! understanding THAT and reminding ourselves of THAT is a mitzvah temidis.. to know GOd is one and Hes the one running the show and nothing else! (that may be why he also says the word tamid!! )
thats what succos is all about .. to look at the flimsy walls of our succah and realize that we are being surrounded by the walls of protectioin .. GOD protection .....and only one thing is really keeping us safe .. HAKADOSH BORUCH HU!
Knowing THAT! is the greatest simcha of all!!
may Hashem be magen that the simcha we feel now will be protected and last throughout the whole year!!
TAMID BESIMCHA!!
~chana shira
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