Returning to the Garden of Eden: The “Four Plants” & the Sukkah
From Isolation to Attachment: Re-Creating Rapture In Our Lives
Women's Sukkos/Bereishis Class
- September 26, 2023
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- 11 Tishrei 5784
Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Class Summary:
This class was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson on Tuesday, 11 Tishrei, 5784, September 26, 2023, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.
Sukkos is called the “Festival of Joy”, but what exactly is so joyful about it? The other major holidays are named after their very essences: Passover is the “Festival of Our Redemption,” and Shavuot is the “Festival of the Giving of Our Torah.” What’s the deep connection between joy and Sukkot?
And how can we understand the mystery of the four plants we shake on Sukkos? If someone unfamiliar with our tradition were to stop you today walking down the street with your four species and say, what are you holding in your hand? You would say: “This is my ritual bouquet!” Then they ask: What do you do with it? “Well, we shake it.” Hu?
What is more, the Torah states that when you take these four plants, “you shall rejoice before your G-d seven days.” Why? How does holding on and shaking these four plants generate happiness?
Who was the first person to take a fruit from a beautiful tree? Of course, Eve and Adam. What fruit was it? The Midrash says: the Esrog. It would appear that on Sukkos we are repeating the same story: we are again taking the Esrog off the tree, but this time around, we take it, shake it, swing it, but don’t eat it. It is almost like G-d is telling us, I want you to do this over again.
In the case of Adam and Eve, they were cursed with sadness. This time around we are blessed with joy. Also, after Adam and Eve eat the fruit they feel like they have to hide from G-d. On Sukkos, when we take the fruit, we “rejoice in the presence of G-d.” What is going on here?
The class (based on this wonderful class by Rabbi Ami Silver: https://www.alephbeta.org/playlist/arbaminim) provides us with a deep reflection on how Sukkos and the Four Species can help us calm our nervous system, reorients our brains, change our paradigms, and ease up the tension in our life, by going away from dissociation to connection. The Sukkah is the virtual “Garden of Eden,” and the four plants allow us to repair what happened millennia ago in the original Garden of Eden, once again reclaiming the joy and ecstasy of life.
The story of the raffle that happened in the IDF captures the timeless unity of our people who were chosen to unite the entire world under the sovereignty of Hashem.
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סיני צבי אופק -4 months ago
תודה רבה על השיעור הזה
הסתכלות מדהימה ועצומה על הד' מינים מלאת משמעות מעשית יש''כ עצום
כמו''כ השיעורים שלכם ממש מחיים את הנפש ונוגעים בנשמה
כמו''כ הספר התוועדות חלק א' שיצא ממש מדהים וכתוב נפלא שתזכו לחבר עוד ספרים רבים בס''ד מתוך בריאות אושר ועושר ושמחה
כמו''כ אשתי את השיעורים בעברית בקול הלשון מאד נהנית ומחייה את הנשמה
שתזכו להמשיך להפיץ תורה והבנה ביהדות ברבים כל חייכם
נ.ב. יש בשיעור הזה כמה שניות ששומעים בכפילות באיזור השעה ועשר דקות ולכאורה אפשר לסדר את זה, למרות שהשיעור מדהים וקשה לי להאמין שמישהו יפסיק בשביל זה
יש''כ וחג שמח
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דוד מיטלמאן -4 months ago
הודו להשם כי טוב , כי אתה מלמד תורתו באהבה
Moreinu,
I learn so much from your shiurim! In my 60 years in Yeshiva i never learned Torah the way you teach me!
Thank You for your dedication and your teachings!!
dovid M.
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Shmuel -1 year ago
Excellent class. Thank you Rabbi Jacobson.
Just a quick question:
Does the myrtle/ Haddas represent both a branch and a trunk?
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YY Jacobson -4 months ago
Yes
yes I think so.
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benzi weiss -1 year ago
make your class live where can put my comtes in chat box where you can see it and answer me
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Mushky -1 year ago
Thank you!
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YY Jacobson -1 year ago
You are so welcome. Ty so much for the feedback.
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Mechy -1 year ago
Thank You!!
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Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson -1 year ago
You are welcome, your feedback means a lot.
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Raymond Cohen -1 year ago
Class
Hi rabbi
can you make the class like only 1 hour.
21/2 hour too long to finsh.
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YY Jacobson -1 year ago
I can try. But double speed was created for my classess...
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Anonymous -1 year ago
is this a maamer from one of the rabeim? where? please
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YY Jacobson -1 year ago
Part of it is from the Maamar v'kacha 5636. Part of it is from a class on rabbi david Forman website as I mentioned in class.
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Rachel -1 year ago
Thank you!
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Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson -1 year ago
You are welcome! Thanks for sharing
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y -1 year ago
Question for Rabbi YY
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YY Jacobson -1 year ago
Part of it is from the Maamar v'kacha 5636. Part of it is from a class on rabbi david Forman website as I mentioned in class.
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Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson -1 year ago
In the transcript below the video, you can see the sources on which this class is based on.
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