Reb Shlomo Carlebach on Sukkot
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Moving From Yom Kippur to Sukkos: Carrying the Torah Forever
After Yom Kippur we feel homeless in our own homes. We don't want to live in a house where the protection is made out of stone or wood. We want to live in a house where it's clear to us that God Himself is protecting us. I don't want to live in a house where I cannot see the stars in the sky. I want to live in a house where every little star can send me a message of light. I don't want to live in a house where maybe even one Jew does not feel at home. I want to live in a house where every Jew, and eventually the whole world, feels at home.
My beautiful friends, every second in the Sukkah, you can taste Paradise in the most eternal way. Once a year we sit with our holy Mothers and our holy Fathers in the Sukkah. I bless you and me; let it also be with our children - all the children of Israel and eventually all the children of the world. All year long, the Torah is such a burden. Every word weighs ten thousand tons, and how often do we think it is really too much, but after being in the Sukkah for Eight days, living in God's world again - a cleansed and purified holy world - I suddenly realize how light the Torah is. It's not I who carries the Torah; it's the Torah that carries me. So I run out from the Sukkah straight to the Holy Ark. I dance with the Torah for forty-eight hours. Before Sukkot, I could barely carry the Torah four steps. After Sukkot, I can carry the Torah forever!
Chag Sameach!
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After spending two years studying in Eretz Yisrael, Dovid'l attended Yeshiva University from 2003-2006 where he Majored in Tanach and Minored in Psychology. In 2007 he continued his studies, joining the RIETS Kollel and Azrieli Graduate School of Education. In the summer of 2008, Dovid'l received Semicha from Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg Shlit"a of Jerusalem, Israel. Before making aliyah in 2012, he spent four years teaching Gemara, Chassidus, Tanach and Halacha at DRS High School for Boys and SKA High School for girls in Woodmere, NY. Dovid'l is also the Rosh Kollel of Camp HASC's Kollel Toras Chesed, is a the co-founder of The Mishna Project, an educational tool which aids the memorization of mishnayos through music, and plays guitar for the band Omek Hadavar. He lives in Yerushalayim with his wife, Rina, and their three children.
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