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The House That Has No Walls to Hide In

For seven days you are told to eat, drink, and sleep in a hut with a roof full of holes. Not to visit it. To live there. What is a mitzvah you perform with your whole body doing at the center of the year?

Shofar Sukkah v'Lulav 6Friday, July 24, 2026

The House That Has No Walls to Hide In

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Chapter 6 of Shofar Sukkah v'Lulav lays out what it means to dwell in the sukkah: the first night's obligation, the table that must come inside with you, the rain that sends you home, and the blessing over a booth you are asked to treat as your true house. It is the law of living inside a mitzvah rather than merely doing one.