Sukkah Zu al Shum Mah? by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom

The Torah commands us to live in Sukkot in order "that your generations know that I made/allowed/enabled (?) Bnei Yisrael to dwell in Sukkot as I took them out of Egypt". As far back as the Tannaitic era, there is an array of opinions as to the referent "Sukkot". Were they clouds of glory, booths in the desert - or the name of a place? The various opinions of Haza"l and the Rishonim are assayed with some surprising approaches shared.

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