0009 - Leishev Basukka in the Rain

00:02 Shabbos Chol Hameitzuk is Tov Shin Chof Zayin. There was a fabringen in the sukkah, and, uh, it was raining. It was pouring. Everyone standing in the rain, and then the Rebbe walked in. He walked in with his coat over his shoulder. And when he sat down, he just moved his shoulders and threw the coat back, and the coat ba- fell back on the back of the chair. And then the Rebbe made kiddush. And I watched, and I saw the Rebbe made kiddush, and it was very clear and obvious that he also made a l'sheiva sukkah. The fact that we sit in the sukkah during the rain, it says, the Rebbe brings it in Sichas, that from the Muknasher, right, that Talmidah, Wa-- from the Vashem Tavan, Talmidah ve Talmidah, Talmidah, they all ate in the sukkah, even in the rain. But to make a bracha l'sheiva sukkah, that's already another dargeh. And it was never clear, do we make a brachah? Don't we make a brachah? But then for sure, the Rebbe, I saw the Rebbe made the brachah l'sheiva sukkah. And the reason probably is because the only reason you're potur is because you're a mitztait. But if you're not a mitztait, it doesn't bother you because the mitzvah of sukkah is so great that it doesn't bother you it's raining. Then you're chayav b'sukkah. If you're chayav, you have to make a brachah. I, someone might ask, maybe, uh, botul dai tzitza el kol odom. Most people are mitztait, so if one person

01:13 is not mitztait, it doesn't change the fact that this is a tzara. So obviously, in this scene, it's not just one person. In this scene, it's all, all the chassidim, I guess. Certainly, all the babichers are not mitztait because the mitzvah of sukkah is so great that there's a bigger tzara sitting in the house than s- on sukkahs than sitting in the rain. I don't know, this is just asboter, but lepel mamish, the Rebbe actually made in a way that everyone could see and made a l'sheiva sukkah.