Ba Succot Teshvu 5736

The Alef Kabbala Group (29 September 09) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe said shortly before the Succot festival in 1975 (5736). This explores the idea that on the one hand the Succah expresses the boundless flow of the transcendent Divine radiance, called 'the radiance which surrounds the worlds'; on the other, by taking the Four Kinds (Lulav and Etrog), ideally in the Succah, one is drawing the Divine radiance into oneself and the world in an 'inward' way. This joining of the beyond rational 'surrounding' radiance, and the 'inward' radiance which can enter our rational minds and our hearts, is a goal which will be achieved fully in the time of the Messiah, but our observance of the Succot festival now is a step towards its achievement.