Sukkot 5787
What a Sukkah Teaches
Context: Sukkot, which is called The Holiday (heChag) and Zman Simchateynu (the time of our Joy) is arriving. It is also associated with redemption. (Pesach-Liberation; Shavuot-Revelation; Sukkot-Redemption).
Objectives:
1. Engage in Mishnah Study and build learning community
2. Discuss and debate and dimensions of Jewish and Human identity
3. Explore themes of humility and pride, particularism and universalism
Sources
Text #1: Mishnah Sukkot 1:1 (codified approximately 200-220 CE) A sukkah that is more than twenty cubits (approx. 30 feet) high is unfit (not kosher). Rabbi Yehuda deems it fit (kosher). Similarly, a sukkah that is not even ten handbreadths high (approx. 3 feet high), and one that does not have three walls, and one whose sunlight is greater than its shade are unfit (not kosher).
סֻכָּה שֶׁהִיא גְבוֹהָה לְמַעְלָה מֵעֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה, פְּסוּלָה. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה מַכְשִׁיר. וְשֶׁאֵינָהּ גְּבוֹהָה עֲשָׂרָה טְפָחִים, וְשֶׁאֵין לָהּ שְׁלֹשָׁה דְּפָנוֹת, וְשֶׁחַמָּתָהּ מְרֻבָּה מִצִּלָּתָהּ, פְּסוּלָה.
