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Bereishis - Dance On!

Bereishis - Dance On!

Have you ever wondered why we need to sit in a Sukkah? 

Rebbi Nachman of Breslov wrote - "if you're in it, you're a living torah!"
You are living the commandment with your whole self. (From Likutay Moharan #266)

What could be better? And even if we didn't do ALL the mitzvot -

Rav Yaskil of Elad says - the reason we "knock a little sense " into the Hoshayness 
that we hit on the 7th day of Sukkos is -

that the Almighty created the world to knock a little bad out of evil and
knock a little holiness (with mitzvot) into the newly emptied void ! 

And if we danced a little with the Torah - 

And if all we did was that -
That's Why We're IN THIS WORLD! To knock a little Holiness into it!!!

SO AFTER SUKKOS HOW CAN YOU NOT DANCE INTO THE FIRST PORTION OF THE TORAH?

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach would say - now that it's in YOU - the mitzvos you did in all the holidays -
and the Torah of Sitting in the Sukkah -
your feet are just programmed to dance into the next mitzvos!

What a world it would be if it were filled with Holiness and Dancing!

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbo Andy Eichenholz