One of the special commandments (mitzvot) of the festival of Sukkot is to be in a sukkah. A sukkah is a booth with three or four walls, roofed with branches and leaves.

Everything in the world has a lesson for our service to God. If this is true for worldly matters, how much more so for the mitzvot, which have a lesson for us.

One of the teachings of the sukkah is that it is easy to fulfill mitzvot. One might think that to connect with God one has to transcend the world around us, somehow connect the physical world with the spiritual world where, so to speak, God is revealed.

Sin embargo, nos enseña la mitzvá de sucá, que cumplir mitzvot es fácil, lo único que hay que hacer, es meterse en la sucá». Por un lado, la sucá misma es una mitzvá fácil, y como todas las mitzvot son la Voluntad de Di-s, si una es fácil, todas son fáciles. Por otro lado, la forma de hacer que las mitzvot sean fáciles es «meterse en la sucá», «meterse» en las mitzvot. Cuando uno se involucra y hace de la Voluntad de Di-s, su propia voluntad, el cumplimiento de los preceptos de Di-s se hace fácil.

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