A vort of the Rebbe concerning the Yom Tov of Sukkos. It says in the פסוק בסוכות תשבו שבעת ימים, you should sit in the sukkah for seven days, למען ידעו דורותיכם, that your generations, the later generations should know כי בסוכות הושבתי את בני ישראל בהוציאי אותם מארץ מצרים, that when I took the Yidden out of Mitzrayim, they sat in Sukkos. And what does that mean? So the Alter Rebbe says in Shulchan Aruch, and all the, regular Shulchan Aruch says that this refers to ענני הכבוד, that when the Yidden were in the desert, there were the clouds שהקיפום בהם לצל, that the clouds surrounded the Yidden to be the shade לבל יכה בהם שרב ושמש, so they shouldn't be hot and shouldn't the the rain shouldn't come in. And therefore, Hashem commanded us to make Sukkos, which is also made for shade, so we should remember the miracles that Hashem did. So the Rebbe asks a she'eilah: why did the Torah establish only a zecher that we should remember the ענני הכבוד, the clouds that gave us shade? The clouds had another purpose. We know that the clouds also would kill all the snakes on the way, would straighten out the road that we should be able to walk. Why is it not that there should be a zecher for that too? Why is the zecher only for the fact that the clouds gave us shade? Why not for the other things that the clouds did? So the Rebbe explains it based on the kushya that the Bach on the Tur asks. He says, why bichlal was the zecher only made for the clouds? There were many miracles that happened in the desert: the mann that Hashem gave us, you can imagine, more than that, He gave us food every day, He gave the be'er, the well of the water. So why is there no zecher set up for that, only for the ענני הכבוד, for the clouds?

So the Mabit answers that the water and the mann, the Yidden had to have it, it was a must, they couldn't live without it, they couldn't survive. So k'vayachol, so to speak, Hashem was obligated to give it all to the Yidden. So that doesn't show the special love Hashem has to the Yidden, because that's something that He's, He took us out of Mitzrayim, He took us to the desert, so He must give us. But ענני הכבוד is not something that they needed to survive, because ענני הכבוד were made for shade, to make it more comfortable. So it's for, so that is not something that Hashem had to give us to survive. So only in that is revealed, shows the love, the special love Hashem has to the Yidden. When He gives us, when He gave us then all our necessities, that doesn't show a special love, because He's obligated to do that. But when He gave us extra to make us more comfortable, that shows the special love that the Eibershter has to the Yidden. And that's why the mon is something that they had to have, it was necessity, the water, so that's not that we celebrate, Eibershter gave us to celebrate to show how much He loves us, is the fact that He gave us extra, He gave us more comfortability, that's what we have to, that shows that the Eibershter loves us.

So the Rebbe says, based on that we could answer the kashya also: why if we make a zecher for the clouds, why only for the fact that it gave us shade, and not for the fact that the clouds straightened out the way and it killed the snakes, etc., etc.? For the same reason: because the fact that the clouds killed the snakes and made it that we should be able to walk, that's a necessity, and that doesn't really show the special love the Eibershter has to the Yidden. Only that part of the clouds, that it gave us shade and we were able to be comfortable, more than what is necessary, that's what shows the Eibershter's love. And that's why we have the mitzvah to remember that, because the mitzvah of sukkah, besides all the other hints and all the other lessons that we take from the mitzvah of sukkah, it is also to show how much the Eibershter loves the Yidden. And that's why the zecher was made only for the fact that the clouds gave us shade, which made us more comfortable. So this is a lesson for us, that besides all the other lessons that we take from sukkah, we should also keep in mind that this brings out the special love that the Eibershter has to the Yidden, that He gives them not only what's necessary, but He gives us extra that should be more comfortable.