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And let me tell you, I'm very happy this year because every year when I give a lesson on Sukkot or Simchat Torah, I tell you I give the lesson but I don't really enjoy Sukkot. It's true. Okay? Every time I say I don't understand, I can't do it, I can explain it to you but I don't feel it.

This year, I don't know what happened, you see, He gives gifts. This is the first year I'm enjoying Sukkot. Now, you understand that for 18 years I haven't enjoyed Sukkot. Why do I say 18 years?

Because in France, well, where we lived before, I lived in France and in Manhattan. Okay. So Sukkot was very technical. You go eat your piece of bread in the synagogue courtyard, and quickly, quickly, it's cold, it's gloomy, it's about to rain.

Quickly, quickly, you do your Birkat Hamazon fast and then you go home. Okay? So in Manhattan, it was even funnier because it was so unsuited to that city. Okay.

First of all, nobody has a terrace, that doesn't exist. Go try to set something up downstairs and you'll get a fine for I don't know how much. And in the kosher restaurants, what do they do? They make what they call pop-up sukkahs.

What is a pop-up sukkah? It's a sukkah that's 1 meter by 1 meter. And then you have a gentleman like this eating his pizza, you see? And you say: "Yeah, okay." So in reality, I don't know other cities.

Okay. Surely in less urban cities, it's more enjoyable, right? But it's only really in Israel that you truly feel that you're meant to enjoy this festival of Sukkot. And well, for 18 years, I said I can't do it, I can't do it, I can't do it.

This is the first year that when I entered the sukkah, I said, Hashem, I'm happy to be with you again. Okay. So, Hashem tells you this. He tells you, "Come into my humble abode.""Come into my humble abode."