למען ידעו דרתיכם כי בסכות הושבתי את בני ישראל בהוציאי אותם מארץ מצרים. The fact that it says תדעו means that they will know in the future, why do we sit in the sukkah so the future generations should know, we should sit so we should know? Why is Sukkot a holiday of such joy? בסכת תשבו שבעת ימים כל האזרח בישראל ישבו בסכת, why use the term אזרח? Why is sukkah the mitzvah that the gentiles will be tested with?
Sukkot is the holiday where we appreciate the journey to the end. The sukkah is a temporary hut reminding us that our time is this world is just a temporary gateway to the ultimate world. We are on a journey and it is a process to reach the end. My great-grandfather wanted to say that is what Kohelet means הבל הבלים , not that the world is meaningless which seems to contradict what the Torah says elsewhere, but that everything must be realized a just a means to the end, not an end in it of itself.
Sukkot is the holiday which embodies the times of Mashiach. That is why we offer korbanot even for the gentiles for they will become included in our service in those times. That is why the Torah uses the term אזרח which refers to the shine of the soul because it is those times the soul will radiate. That is why the Torah stresses the knowledge of the future generations for that is when Sukkot can fully be appreciated. The great joy of sukkot is that we recognize even now that we have not reached that stage, in our hut outdoors we are able to contemplate that we are on the journey toward reaching that goal. The gentiles will be tested with sukkah because the message is you want a quick fix, there is a process that must be gone through to appreciate the times of the Mashiach. Can you appreciate the temporary stages to get there, can you go out in a sukkah? The gentiles don't want to build up toward the end and they fail the test. We do understand that we are gazing at the stars looking toward a bright future.
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