Succos is about teshuva from ahava or teshuva ilo’oh higher degree of teshuva. After the teshuva from yiroh of Rosh Hashono and Yom Kippur, the simcha that we have after realizing that Hashem gave us the opportunity to be absolved of sins and to start over, brings us to the higher degree of teshuva, from ahavas Hashem. Simcha open the intellectual eyes and makes us realize that Hashem is All Good and gives us only brocho and hashpo’os tovos. It is our sinning that ruins this and brings us problems. And through the simchas mitzvos of succos and the teshuva m’ahavo we are zoiche to actually bringing our whole corporeal bodies entirely within the walls of a mitzva. All other mitzvos, the act of the mitzva leaves the mitzva outside, like tefilin. On Shabbos the mitzva surrounds us but its a spiritual surrounding. On Succos we are surrounded physically by the mitzva.
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