Rav Mordechai Finkelman Wants to Schlepp the Boards
Offered a ready-made sukkah built into his house, Rav Mordechai Finkelman said no: he wanted to build his own sukkah every year, out of love for mitzvos.
Rav Mordechai Finkelman, mashgiach of Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim, received a generous offer from a friend. The friend offered to build Rav Finkelman a sukkah that would be part of his house. For Sukkos, he would simply remove the roof, replace it with schach, and have an almost instant sukkah. Rav Finkelman demurred; he wanted to build the sukkah from scratch every year himself. He said, “I want to schlepp the boards”. Such is Rav Finkelman’s love for mitzvos.