Sukkot 5783

(To receive thoughts seasonally for the upcoming holiday by e-mail -- sign up here! )  From the Kabbalists "At the end of seven years, at the time of the Sabbatical year, on the festival of Sukkot…." [31:10] If you will analyze the mystical dimension of the commandment of Hakhel, you will find that just as the Shemittah year itself is an allusion to the 7th millennium during which our universe will revert to chaos, so the commandment of Hakhel, which commences after completion of the seventh year, alludes to the word "la'asot" in Genesis 2:4, which follows the report of the conclusion of the seven days of creation after the Torah had introduced the concept of the Sabbath. We also find in Psalms 92, the hymn dedicated by David to the Sabbath, that he speaks about the righteous who will flourish like the palm tree, (presumably after the seventh millennium). I have already dealt with the meaning of that psalm in connection with Genesis 2,2.

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