Vulnerability and Protection: the Paradox of Sukkot​​​​​​​

(42) You shall dwell in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall dwell in booths; (43) that future generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I YHVH your God.

(13) You shall keep the feast of booths seven days, after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress. (14) And you shall rejoice in your festival, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. (15) Seven days you shall hold a festival for YHVH your God in the place which YHVH shall choose; because YHVH your God shall bless you in all your crops, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

For it has been taught: "For I made the children of Israel dwell in booths" (Leviticus 23:43): These were clouds of glory, the words of R. Eliezer. R. Akiva says: They made for themselves real sukkot.

(1) The words of Kohelet, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. (2) Utter futility, said Kohelet; utter futility, all is futile. (3) What real value is there for a person in all the gains he makes under the sun? (4) One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains the same for ever. (5) The sun rises, the sun sets, and glides back to where it rises. (6) The wind goes toward the south, And turns about unto the north; ever turning blows the wind. On its rounds the wind returns. (7) All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; To the place from which they flow the streams flow back again.