The holiday of Sukkot symbolizes joy. This is a wonderful, pleasant, easy, and simple holiday that people love very much. Although it requires advanced preparation, it is nevertheless imbued with a joyful atmosphere. Why?

First of all, after self-examination, after receiving the Torah on Shavuot, on the 9th of the month of Av, we saw ourselves as shattered (this is also symbolized by shattering of the tablets). Then we came to the recognition of evil, and on the Jewish New Year (Rosh HaShanah) we decided that we must correct ourselves.

Then came the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). In the language of Kabbalah, this is described as the embrace of the right and left lines, the manifestation of the qualities of judgment (Dinim) and mercy (Hassadim), sweetening.

Then finally, the holiday of Sukkot comes, special corrections, when I can already take my desires and raise them to bestowal. The symbol of this process is the Sukkah (a hut). Everything is extremely simple: I use the simplest, “cast-off” desires represented by the branches and leaves of the hut.

There is nothing in them, but it is from them that I build myself a temporary home, a canopy that gives at least some shade over my head. It is made of things that have no value and can be found everywhere.

Once I have built this state, this temporary shelter, I can rejoice inside of it. Thus, it symbolizes the spiritual vessel (Kli) into which I receive the light. The canopy is a symbol of the screen (Masach). I do not want to receive the light directly, the shadow should significantly prevail over it so that it barely makes its way through the roof.

I am happy that I have formed a screen above me that allows me to hide the upper abundance and to remain in the shadows. I myself (although, of course, with the help of the reforming light) can hide from pleasures in a spiritual vessel.

Then the process continues. I correct myself again and again in my growing vessels (desires), I am with them in a “hut,” i.e., I can open and use them with the help of the cover.

Then I come to the holiday of Simchat Torah (The joy of the Torah). Torah is the reforming light that I received on Shavuot. I used this force to correct the vessels and now I am exiting the hut. In other words, I have an unlimited screen and I no longer have to take care of the cover.

The exit from the hut symbolizes the fact that from now on I am free to wander all over reality, all over the world. It is no longer necessary to build a screen over my head because now it is within me. I am in a self-corrected vessel.
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From the 4^th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/18/13, “Sukkot”

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