Sukkos: When the Entire Jew Draws Close to Hashem

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After a Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a Yid is living mamash in Olam Haba, sukas oiroi shel לוייתן. It's an unbelievable elevated time where a Yid lives mamash somewhere else he's living. How does a person reach this darga of lifnei Hashem? And the answer is, rabboisai, that a Yid has two parts to him. Every Yid has the guf, it's our body. Our body is here. Our heart, completely attached to the Eibishter throughout the year. There's a beautiful vort from the Sfas Emes, Meir Dikev, daher: Gedolah teshuvah shemaga'as ad kisei hakavod. The teshuvah is so great that it reaches the kisei hakavod. He says, what does that mean? If you notice, Shabbos teshuvah is an inyan to do teshuvah, special on Shabbos teshuvah. Why? Shabbos is the neshama. The guf we leave behind. The six days of work, we leave the guf behind. Shabbos we come, the neshama yeseirah, a person gets an hisa'arus. Where are the neshamos of Klal Yisroel? States in Zohar, the neshamos are tachas kisei hakavod. So he says that's the pshat: lokeach asher shavas mikol hama'asim, vayom hashvii... vayashav. Why does he sit al kisei kavod? And the answer is because the neshama has become the base of the kisei hakavod. The neshamos of Klal Yisroel is the base of the kisei hakavod. On Shabbos, the Yid's neshama... reaches a level where he is davuk to the Eibishter in such a way that the kisei hakavod now is able to stand firm on its feet. The guf we left behind. The neshama soars ad kisei hakavod. That's what it means, gedolah teshuvah shemagaas ad kisei hakavod. You hear, it's a meiridike thing. What does a person feel on Shabbos? And you know what the answer is? He feels his neshama from within is reaching high levels, kesher with the Ribono Shel Olam, but his guf not. It's interesting, why do we have a neshama yeseirah? So Rashi says, to be able to eat all the food that's needed for Shabbos. What does it mean that we have a neshama yeseirah in order to be able to eat? Rashi says that on Shabbos, in order to eat the food of Shabbos. What's the pshat? You know, the food for the guf has a gvul. The neshama of Klal Yisroel is now reaching the kisei hakavod, so he's separating. So the food of Shabbos, what is it mazen? If it was mazen the guf, it would have a limit. But since it's mazen the neshama, the neshama is endless. You know what the Yid becomes on Shabbos? The neshama. The guf stays where it is, but the neshama soars to shamayim. That's gedolah teshuvah shemagaas ad kisei hakavod. What is Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur makes that the guf also soars with the Ribono Shel Olam. There's no achilah, there's no shtiyah. The Yid becomes one with the Ribono Shel Olam; he is gufulso. That's the pshat in Yom Kippur. All year, there's a way how a person can connect with the Eibishter. It's always that his guf remains here. Yes, the neshama, Shabbos, reaches the kisei hakavod. Yes. Yom Kippur makes that the entire Yid becomes connected with the Rabbeinu Shalom, his guf and his neshama. Mimeila, what goes to Shamayim? Not only the neshama, but the guf also. And therefore he goes into the sukkah, b'tzila d'mehemnusa. The Yid is on a level where it's him and the Rabbeinu Shalom. All year he's got to find from within how to connect to the Eibishter. Shevisi Hashem l'negdi tamid, there's work needed. Yom Kippur makes the person that he's connected to the Eibishter with his guf also. So the next step is the lifnei Hashem in the tzila d'mehemnusa.