One opinion in the gemarah mantains that the Sukkah that we build is a momento of the booths we ourselves built in the midbar, not the Annanei HaKovod, the clouds of glory Hashem surrounded us with. We commemorate not a miracle, so indeed what are we busy remembering? We suggested that the Succoh represents how Hashem is looking after us and providing us our needs, day in and day out. Just as he made sure we had our huts in the desert, so too does he make sure we constantly have our needs. The huts are but a metaphor for all the goodies he gives us, gives us again, and then again some more.
Another suggestion was that we are remembering our Midbar days. Our Midbar days were not only a great period for the Jewish people, (and they certainly were a great time, a time in which we all grew to greatness, every last man, woman and child) it was actually the period in which we became a people, the Jewish people, the Nation of God. That’s why it is so important for us to remember this period, because how we became says what we are. We became a nation along the lines of being servants of Hashem, for we had in common that He took us from the service of Egypt to His own, and laid down to us what He wanted from us. That’s who we are, servants to Him. That is what being a Jew is. So we are saying that the point is not to remember the huts at all, but this remembering the huts will bring back the memories of the period, and what was going on with us!
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