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The Klei Yakar in his sefer Olalos Ephraim gives us a mashel. A king sends his servants overseas. He entrusts them with a big vineyard to work on which needs team work. Recognizing that they will not see results soon, he also gives them some small vineyards to support themselves. The servants realizing that they can see results from them right away without team work, give up on the working of the big vineyards which get destroyed. The King proclaims two edicts. One, once a year the servants have to live in the big vineyard thereby come to see its destruction which might encourage them to work on it. Two, he gives them a symbolism emphasizing the importance of team work.
The nimshal is, Hashem sends us down to this world, earth. He entrust us to work for Olam Haboh, the next world to come by giving us mitzvos to do that require team work to fulfil. He also gives us a living to support ourselves. To remind us about the next world to come, once a year He wants us to live our house and go into the sukkah, our spirital house the working towards olam haboh, is crumbling. He also give a symbolism, lulav and esrug, to remind us on the importance of team work.Beitzah 25 proves from a piece of raw meat from a hospitalized cow that we are not allowed to eat at the end of yom tov – that derech eretz is from the Torah and, in general, Hashem gave us Torah so that oterwise, Jews with their azut will not give space to other nations to live.
A fitting food for thought for Simchat Torah and a l’chaim for an increasing derech eretz on this site.
Why don’t we all remind ourselves that the temporary physical world we are all currently in is only temporary and physical with a mission for each person to complete and accomplish and the real world is above and if we all remember this and keep this in mind then we will be more focused on completing our mission so we can serve Hashem face to face in the true world above.
Hashem is waiting for each and every single one of us to complete our mission in this temporary physical world so we can be personally greeted with spiritual love and welcomed into the true world above.
The possuk says about Yaakov, “ויבן לו בית ולמקנהו עשה סוכות”
Chassidus explains that לו – for himself (i.e. his neshama), Yaakov built בית – permanent structures.
למקנהו – for his physical needs, he made סוכות, temporary dwellings, since everything in this world is only temporary.(ראה לקוטי שיחות ח”א ע’ 68)
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