What is Sukkot you ask?
What if it is when God JUDGES us on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,
He is like a Bubbe
Who sits playing cards
Only bragging
about having made them
So gorgeous! So smart! So kind! So talented! So successful! (No matter if we consider ourselves to be.) Flaunting pictures of us throughout the year!
What if He can’t stop kvelling! And can’t stop kvelling! I think God has too much love for anything else.
So finally He bursts forth
To rejoice?
… And that is Sukkot.
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