Succot - Torah of the Fallen Leaves

[Aryae Coopersmith]

Dear Friends,

40 years ago we built a huge succah, big enough for hundreds of people, in the back yard of the House of Love and Prayer. Do you remember? Reb Shlomo came and spent the week of Succot with us. Hundreds of people came and joined us. Even though it was foggy in San Francisco that week and drizzling most nights, Shlomo slept in the succah every night, so many of us did too.

The first night he shared the most amazing teaching with us – The Torah of the fallen leaves. It’s in one of the chapters of Holy Beggars, and I’d like to share it with you. You can read the excerpt at Fallen Leaves.

I want to bless you and me and all of us that in the remaining days of Succot we can have the deepest connection to the leaves and plants and all of nature and all the world around us, to the people around us, and to all the scattered parts of ourselves – and that we can be agents of the will of Heaven to pull the pieces together and make this world whole.

Aryae

[reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe]

i said over this torah to people this shabos and they thought that it wasout of this world.

[reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe]

hashem, please help all jews have succas next year that are covered with fallen leaves that represent broken hearts that are the only vessels that the oir misarev can enter instead of succas that are covered with bamboo poles or schach mats.

[reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe]

why is nobody but holy brother rabbi aryae and me interested in the kabala of the fallen leaves? why have only 3 people been on this website in the last month? why have only 4 people been on this website in the last 2 months? why have only 6 people been on this website in the last 3 months? why have only 8 people been on this website in the last 4 months? where are all the holy beggars? the answer is that most holy beggars dont have money to buy computers.
where are all the holy brothers and sisters? the answer is that most jews who want to be holy follow the rabbinical decrees to not use amalek's treife internet!

[reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe]

i always thought that a succa covered with bamboo poles or schach mats was very unasthetic. i always preffered a green succa to a yellow succa. i now know thanks to rabbi aryae coopersmith's remembering this teaching from rabbi shlomo carlebach that a yellow bamboo succa is not even al pi kabala and that for a suuca to be al pi kabala it has to be covered with fallen leaves which represent broken hearts which are the only vessels that the ohr maserev can penetrate. do we want a succa full of the ohr mesarev or do we want a the convinience of a yellow bamboo succa?

[reuven sabel aka golden gater rebbe aka proshevitzer rebbe aka proszowicer rebbe]

i think we should all go back to the old-fashioned way of covering our succa with fallen leaves instead of the modern ways of covering a succa with bamboo poles or schach mats. i cover my 17 by 21 succa with freshly cut tree branches full of beautiful fresh smelling fallen leaves that make my succa smell the way a succa is supposed to smell.
the problem is that most of todays succas are not strong enough to support heavy tree branches. todays portable succas will fall down if one trys to cover them with anything heavier than one layer of schach mats. in order to be able to use heavy tree branches to cover a succa, one needs to make the succa walls strong enough to support the heavy tree branches. this cannot be accomplished with a canvas succa or even a fiberglass wall succa or even a succa made from wooden succa panels. to build a strong enough succa to support h0eavy schach one needs to have a frame made out of 2 by 4s constructed sturdy. one type of succa design that appeals to me is the use of 6 foot high wood picket fences with fence posts that are 8 feet above the ground to hold the schach at 8 feet above the ground. i also have other ideas for succas that stay up all year. the name of my business is tzimtzoom vrevach creative succa design and i am available to design succas for a negotiable fee. please call me at 845-659-9162 if you are interested in having me desisn your permanent stay-up-all-year succa for next year and dont wait for the last minute because your succa that i design for you will be a beautiful enclosed patio all year.