The Message of the Sukkah - Ravbi Yitzchak Botton

You're coming in for seven days and then you're leaving. No one in their right mind would invest so much effort and focus on the minor physical details that in seven days won't matter. And that's actually the life lesson that we we take from the suka. We have to understand that life comes and goes. We're here for 60 70 years and gone. We could spend our life building and amassing things that in the end we don't take with us. We leave it behind. So in light of this, what can we appreciate? What is permanent? Imagine a person has a suit. It's an expensive, beautiful suit, good fabric, but that suits only to cover his body. We wouldn't give the suit more concern and more care than the body. A person is going to live an unhealthy life, both physically, more so spiritually, and take care of his suit. That's foolish. Well, so too, in a deeper sense, we have to know that our body and all this physical world is only a place for anamas to come into and do its part, fulfill its purpose. This world is only created and prepared for us to come and to do our job here. And in the next world, we reap the rewards. And if we come to this world with a mentality that it's permanent and we invest everything we have, all our co, all our energy, all our amazing ideas that Hashem blesses us to have with things that ultimately have no real purpose. So then it's a waste of life and a waste of our energies. That's the most amazing thing we take out from the suk. Turn to the nishama. Turn to why we're here in this world. Turn to what is permanent about this world. It's the job that we accomplish in this world, not the physical things we amass. Similar to the home and a family, what's permanent? What's the in the family? Not the furniture, not the table, but the type of meals and conversations and beautiful relationship that you build for eternity at those tables, especially involving mitzvot filling Hashem's in the world is the ultimate purpose. It brings purpose to everything that we do, to our business, to our home life, to our personal relationships. That is the ultimate that we can accomplish and that's what we're here for.