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Of course, with so much
merging and changing,
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their name.
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doesn't quite fit the conven-
tional view of piety. "In the
morning sow thy seed, and
in the evening withhold not
thy hand . . . truly the light
is sweet, and it is a pleasant
thing for the eyes to behold
the sun . . . rejoice, young
man, in thy youth, and let
thy heart cheer thee in the
days of thy youth."
Even the stories told about
Sukkot possess an eccentric,
irreverent Jewish charm.
There is the one told about
the rebbe whom the
villagers entrusted with
money to buy an etrog. He
prepared to travel to the
nearest city to select a choice
citron-like fruit, one fresh,
firm, with a fine aroma, and
wrinkled. Why wrinkled?
Because the etrog sym-
bolizes the heart, and which
heart that feels the anguish
of the world can be smooth?
A smooth-skinned etrog is a
symbol of a callous heart.
On the way to the city the
rebbe came upon a wagoner
crying beside his horse who
had fallen dead. Without a
horse, a wagon is as useless
as a man without mazel, the
wagoner explained. Without
a horse, he and his family
would starve. The rebbe
asked no questions, handed
over to the wagoner the bag
of money allocated by the
villagers for the purchase of
an etrog and returned home.
He explained what had
happened to the distraught
villagers, who cried aloud,
"What will we do when
Sukkot comes?" The rebbe
consoled them. "Do not ben
sad. The whole world will
recite the benedictions over`
an etrog, but we here will
recite them over a dead
horse."
Irreverent but true to the
spirit of Sukkot. For if the
meaning of the festival of joy,l
is gratitude, what greater re-'
joicing can there be than to
lift up the lot of the fallen !
and thereby to rejoice God as
well?
If on Yom Kippur the way `1 (
to expiate sins is through
fasting and repenting before
the King who dwells on
high, on Sukkot one turns 'I I
away from transgression by
means of laughter and re-
joicing. Along these lines jH
Zayde taught us that there
are two different ways to
turn, to do teshuvah, or II
repentance. One way is
through fear, remembering
that God transcends the
world and is enthroned on
High. That is the way of the
solemn Day of Atonement.
The other way to turn is
through love, remembering ()
that God dwells in the midst
of the sukkah. One way is
the way of self-judgment, the
other the way of self-
forgiveness. Both are need-,
ed, and that is why there are
so many feasts and fasts in
our tradition.
So Zayde taught. ❑
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