Escape the Life That Trapped You | The Secret of Sukkot — Rabbi Botton

Why do we keep falling back into the same habits, the same patterns, and the same version of ourselves—even when we genuinely want to change? Rabbi Yitzchak Botton reveals a surprising secret hidden in Sukkot and the Exodus from Egypt: sometimes real change cannot begin until we step outside the environment that keeps creating the old version of us. Why did Hashem take the Jewish people out of Egypt and into an empty desert instead of simply giving them a better life where they were? And why does the Torah ask us, thousands of years later, to leave the security of our homes and live in a temporary sukkah for seven days?