- Who was Moshe Feinstein? years of life, where he lived what is he most known for? What era of Jewish history is he part of?
- What was the purpose of the sukkah according to Feinstain?
- Do you think we need it today more or less than the desert generation? Why or why not?answer with at least 3-4 sentences.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Derash Moshe, Derash 22
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The generation in the desert, who achieved a very high spiritual level like that of the prophets, and merited the Clouds of Glory, nevertheless also sat in actual booths. The explanation [why they needed both the Clouds of Glory and to sit in booths] is that they needed to be in the desert for forty years and live a temporal existence and eat the Manna in order to learn to internalize that this world is only a passageway [to the future world] so that when they would enter the Land of Israel, they would not become absorbed in a mundane existence. |