Sukkot is temporary residence. …they said, “Leave the permanent residence and dwell in temporary residence” (Baal HaSulam, Shamati, 96, “What Is Waste of Barn and Winery, in the Work?”).

When a person leaves his permanent home, he finds himself in a state without a home. Therefore, he must surely find a place where he can “land.” This is a temporary dwelling. One begins to feel he can get comfortable there.

When a person reaches such a state, even while still in the process of searching, he begins to understand what his permanent home and temporary home mean. By agreeing to a temporary home, he feels how much the Creator brings him closer to Himself and is filled with a sense of happiness.

This is the Sukkot holiday, when a person leaves his permanent home and goes into a field or a forest, it doesn’t matter where, and arranges for a temporary dwelling for himself there.

Therefore, a temporary dwelling, a hut, is not intended for living in it but only for moving from one level to another. While a permanent home is a corrected Kli, it is a home we must return to.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/18/24, “Sukkot”

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