Sukkos: When It Rains in the Sukkah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the Vilna Gaon say that when it rains, a sukkah is not a sukkah? One suggestion builds on other words of the Vilna Gaon. Rain, like the master in the Mishnah throwing the water back, leaves only din. Sukkah, 91 in gematria, joins two names of Hashem, din together with rachamim.

Key points

• The Oneg Yom Tov asks how sitting in a sukkah in the rain is not hanaah from its kedusha.
• The Vilna Gaon has the ananei hakavod return on Tishrei fifteenth, once the Chet HaEgel was forgiven.
• The Vilna Gaon reads the Mishnah's undiluted wine as din and its water as rachamim.
• Perhaps rain undoes the sukkah because a sukkah announces Hashem's mechila, and rain signals din.
• The Vilna Gaon counted 85 pasul sukkahs and 91 kosher ones in Maseches Sukkah.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The kasha of the Oneg Yom Tov
2. 3:34The Vilna Gaon on rain and sukkah
3. 5:05Ananei hakavod after the Chet HaEgel
4. 10:45The Mishnah of the servant's cup
5. 15:51The talmid who knew Maseches Sukkah
6. 19:08The gematria of sukkah
7. 26:40The four minim and Hillel
8. 28:33Yom Kippur, Succos, guf and neshama

Topics

• Succos
• Kedushas Sukkah
• Vilna Gaon
• Ananei HaKavod