The seventh day of the Sukkot holiday, which completes the holidays, is called Hoshana Rabbah (The Great Salvation). Every day we ask the Creator for salvation, and now, on the last day of the holiday, we must combine all our requests into one big cry: “Save us!” After all, we kept asking, but salvation did not come.

This seventh day is dedicated to King David who feels there is no great, final salvation for the entire people of Israel yet. As the king of Israel, Sefira Malchut, he feels this most of all and therefore cries out to the Creator, and we need to join in this cry.

On the night of Hoshana Rabbah, it is customary for everyone to check whether he has a shade, the perfect faith, clothing for the light. Night, darkness, comes precisely to the place where light should be revealed. And if we pray and ask as we should, light comes inside this darkness, and then it seems much stronger than usual.

Faith is the condition on which the light can shine, and nothing can overshadow it. We call this night Hoshana Rabbah because the light comes to those Kelim who need it, demand it, and ask for it to be revealed. This is a consequence of all the past days of Sukkot as a result of which the light appears. And to the extent of this light comes the great salvation, Hoshana Rabbah.

A person checks his shade, that is, how much effort he exerted, despite concealment, and merited salvation, the light. Throughout the Sukkot festival he asked to be in the shade, that is, he asked for faith. And now, by his shade, he checks how correctly he walked the path and prepared himself for the great light that should be revealed during Hoshana Rabbah.

As a result of this request, we receive the great light of Hoshana Rabbah that leads us to correction. This light gives us a huge shade within which we can reveal the huge light of the great salvation, Hoshana Rabbah.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/23/24, “Hoshana Rabbah”

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