COLlive.com presents Shabbos Night Live, a weekly web class with Torah thought, chassidic stories and timely inspiration.
Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Executive Director of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization (Tzach Hamerkazis) and a long-time columnist and radio broadcaster.
This week’s program: The story about the Rebbe’s father and why Chabad don’t sleep in the Sukkah.
excellent question from perplexed.
the idea is,
a chossid enjoys every moment in a sukkah, there is nothing like sitting in a sukkah!
as simple as that! rain or snow dosen’t change that.
BUT!!!
the idea that I am able to fall asleep in a sukkah since I am coarse and insensitive to the Holiness of a sukkah is enough to cause me pain.
Now ideally then I shouldn’t sleep the whole sukkos, but since I am a human being it’s kinda hard so ……
I end falling asleep outside my sukkah !
For a Chossid to sit in the Succah is not tzaar. Even if it’s raining. On the contrary to eat on Succos in the house is a real tzaar.
i forgot to mention , thank you very much for your wonderful and exciting broadcasts . ah gut gebenchente yahr !!!!
I dont understand why lubavitchers don’t sleep because of mitztaer but they do eat in the succah in hard rain though halacha calls it tzaar.
Love it! Great Rabbi Butman! Gut yor!! the best of health, naches,simches, gelt, begshamius and b’ ruchnius gam beyachad!!