"דבר אחר: פרי עץ הדר, אלו ישראל. מה אתרוג זה, יש בו טעם ויש בו ריח. כך ישראל, יש בהם בני אדם, שיש בהם תורה, ויש בהם מעשים טובים.
כפות תמרים, אלו ישראל. מה התמרה(לולב) הזו, יש בו טעם ואין בו ריח. כך הם ישראל, יש בהם שיש בהם תורה ואין בהם מעשים טובים.
וענף עץ עבות, אלו ישראל. מה הדס, יש בו ריח ואין בו טעם.כך ישראל, יש בהם שיש בהם מעשים טובים ואין בהם תורה.
וערבי נחל, אלו ישראל. מה ערבה זו, אין בה טעם ואין בה ריח. כך הם ישראל, יש בהם בני אדם שאין בהם לא תורה ולא מעשים טובים.
ומה הקב"ה עושה להם? לאבדן אי אפשר, אלא אמר הקדוש ברוך הוא יוקשרו כולם אגודה אחת, והן מכפרין אלו על אלו."
מדרש רבה, ויקרא
(12) The four species are likened to different categories in the Jewish people.(13) The Etrog, which has both taste and smell, is likened to those that study Torah and do Mitzvot.
(14) The palm branch, which has taste, but no smell, is likened to those who have only Torah study.
(15) The myrtle, which has smell but no taste, is likened to those who have only mitzvot.
(16) The willow, which has neither taste nor smell, is likened to those who are without Torah study and without mitzvot.
(17) And Hashem says "bind them all together and let them atone one for the other."
(יג) חַ֧ג הַסֻּכֹּ֛ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים בְּאָ֨סְפְּךָ֔ מִֽגָּרְנְךָ֖ וּמִיִּקְבֶֽךָ׃
(13) After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your vat, you shall hold the Feast of Booths for seven days.
“Every human being is beautiful. Each has his own needs, wants, desires, passions which serve to complement and influence our experiences. This realisation not only heightens our empathy towards each other but sets each person a mission.”
Yoni Jesner, killed 19 September 2002
האזרח בישראל.
Native refers to born Jews; in Israel adds converts (Rashi; Sifra)
Rashi cites the exegesis of the Sages that the commandment to dwll in a succah applies to converts as well as to native Jews. Unexplained, however, is why the commandment of Succah should require such an exegesis any more than hundreds of other commandments that are as binding on converts as on all other Jews. The reason may be found in the very next verse, which states that the Succah serves as a reminder that G-d protected our ancestors in the Wilderness. If so, one might have conjectured that such a reminder is is not incumbent on converts, whose ancestors were not in the Wilderness. By specifically including converts in this commandment the Torah stresses their equaity with the rest of their adopted nation.
R'Yaakov Kamenetsky