Sukkot is the Feast of Tabernacles. For seven days, all of the family’s main activities take place not in the house but in the sukkah, which is a type of booths or hut.

This festival coincides with the time of year in the northern hemisphere when the agricultural harvest is gathered and stored in granaries.

When people have full warehouses, they feel a state of glut and satiety: They are exposed to pride and arrogance because they feel self-sufficient.

Therefore, the most important precept of Sukkot is to leave the house and settle in a precarious and fragile hut. The objective is to counteract the possible arrogance inherent to abundance. By living in a temporary home that is exposed to rain, wind and other natural phenomena, we realize that there are many factors that do not depend on us but on God.

In this way, a person can avoid a common confusion: thinking that the possession of goods and material opulence lead to happiness. However, neither luxury nor ostentation are related to genuine happiness because it does not actually depend on any external factors.

Sukkot transmits the following teaching: happiness is not achieved through the acquisition of goods but through the acquisition of noble and ethical values.