SUKKOT in Jerusalem, Hag Sameeah !

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May the All-Merciful One establish for us the fallen sukkah of David.

A strong prayer that we add at the end of our meals during sukkot.  An audacious request addressed to HaChem , composed by R’Yosef Chayim of Baghdad, the Ben Ish Chai. In his piyyut, R’Yosef Chayim enumerates the seven honored guests who are traditionally welcomed into the Sukkah.  We are asking that the Jewish people be redeemed in their merit: Avraham, Yitzchaq, Ya’aqov, Moshe, Aharon, and Yosef, and in the concluding seventh verse of the piyyut, King David.

As a simple and fragile sukkah, David’s kingdom felt and doesn’t exist anymore but his power, was never destroyed, it’s only fallen, able to rises back up and stands on its feet again.