2020-06-12 – LH3 – OC3 – Sukkah 1 – Para. 5-6 – Ushpizin (Guests); Who is One’s Rabbi? Sukkah Dimensions; Public Domain; Sukkah 2 – Para. 1 – Preventing a “Fallen Sukkah”; Lulav During Hallel

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Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. This halakha is based on Likutey Moharan 29.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 5. The האושפיזין ha-ushpizin (Aramaic for “the guests”), Israel’s “Seven Shepherds”, the supernal visitors to the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkos.
11:00 – Definition of a person’s rabbi – the one who teaches us emunah – faith in Hashem.
13:00 – PARAGRAPH 6. Even if the walls of the sukkah don’t actually reach up to the schakh (roofing of reeds), the sukkah is kosher as long as the walls are at least 10 tefachim tall, measured from the floor. Any partition above 10 tefachim marks a division between public and private domain (10 tefachim equals about 80 to 100 cm or about 3 to 3 1/2 feet).
16:00 – QUESTION about how the Seven Shepherds relate to the seven openings of the head.
26:00 – HALAKHA 2. PARAGRAPH 1. Preventing a “Fallen Sukkah” – reference to the movement of the blood through the 365 gidin (sinews) which correspond to the 365 mitzvos lo t’asey Torah prohibitions. Reference to Likutey Moharan 29, “keshes habris” (bow of the covenant), and the support given to the sukkah through the arba minim (four species), which are an aspect of the four white garments worn by the Kohen Gadol on Yom HaKippurim.
*35:00 – The sukkah is an aspect of Ema-Binah – spiritually, a mother’s womb. The four days between Yom HaKippurim and Sukkos correspond to the four white garments.
41:00 – Why we hold the Arba Minim during Hallel. Saying Hallel achieves tikkun hadibur for speech and shaking the lulav achieves tikkun haklali for the entire body. All four types of tikkun haklali are connected.
58:00 – Rabbi Rosenfeld z”l emphasized carrying the arba minim with pride when walking to shul during Sukkos.
61:00 – QUESTION about why we don’t make the blessing on the Arba Minim on Shabbos.
61:00 – CLOSING COMMENTS about the 20th of Sivan, yahrzeit of Rabbi Shimson Ostropoli z”l and Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Nemirov z”l. Commemoration of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish martyrs during the Chmelnitsky massacres (Ukraine, 1648) which began the day this shiur was given.