Article: To sleep, perchance to dream...

Yaakov Fogelman
Jerusalem Post
09-27-1996
SUCCOT IS a strange paradox. On the one hand it is the holiday of the highest joy, of the full harvest, of festive meals in the succa, of simchat beit hashoeva; of daily recitations of hallel and the exaltation of God's glorious gift of nature, symbolized in the four species. On the other hand, it is also when we read Kohelet where Solomon dwells upon the transient, bitter and seemingly meaningless nature of so much in life. Amidst our joy in nature, we also experience the sad limits of life under the sun, the death inherent in all life as our four species and plucked natural roofing for the succa wither and die before our eyes.

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