Blessings of Sukkot

One who constructs a sukka for himself recites: Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has given us life, sustained us, and brought us to this time.

When he comes to sit in the sukka, he recites: Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us through His mitzvot and commanded us to reside in the sukka.

One who prepares a lulav for himself, but not one who prepares for others, recites when preparing it on the eve of the Festival: Blessed…Who has given us life, sustained us, and brought us to this time.

When he takes it during the Festival in order to fulfill his obligation, he says: Blessed…Who sanctified us with His mitzvot and commanded us concerning the taking of a lulav.

And even though he recited the blessing over the lulav on the first day of the Festival, he repeats and recites the blessing over the lulav all seven days when fulfilling the mitzva.

One who establishes a sukka for himself recites: Blessed…Who has given us life, sustained us, and brought us to this time.

When he enters to sit in the sukka, he recites: “Blessed…Who has sanctified us with His mitzvot and commanded us to reside in the sukka.

And once he recited the blessing on the first day, he no longer recites it on the rest of the days, as all seven days are considered a single unit.

The Sages taught: One who establishes a sukka for himself recites: Blessed…Who has given us life, sustained us, and brought us to this time.

When he enters to reside in the sukka, he recites: “Blessed…Who has sanctified us with His mitzvot and commanded us to reside in the sukka.

If the sukka was already established and standing and was not constructed for the sake of the mitzva of sukka, then if he is able to introduce a novel element in the sukka for the sake of the mitzva, he recites the blessing: Who has given us life.

And if not, then when he enters to reside in the sukka on the Festival he recites two blessings

One who makes a lulav for himself, says "Blessed is the one who brought us to this time."
And when he takes it, he says, "Upon the taking of the lulav" and he needs to bless upon it all seven days.
One who makes tzitzit [for himself], says "Blessed is the one who brought us to this time."
And when he enwraps, he says, "Blessed...to enwrap with tzitzit."
One who makes tefillin [for oneself], he says, "Blessed is the one who brought us to this time."
And when he places them, he says, "Who has sanctified us to place tefillin."
When does one place them on? In the morning. If one hadn't placed them on during the morning, one places them on the entire day.

Rav Ashi said: "I saw Rav Kahana, who recites all of these over the cup of kiddush."

A sukka is fit even if it was built by a gentile...And if a sukka was built by a Jew, he is not required to recite a blessing upon its construction. ... Whereas he does not recite a blessing: To construct a sukkah

One who makes a sukkah for himself does not need to bless on its making, even though that it is taught in the Yerushalmi: "One who makes a sukkah for oneself blesses the one who is sanctified us with his blessings to make a sukkah . One who makes a sukkah for one's friend blesses upon the making of sukkah . We rely upon the Babylonian Talmud which says that one need not bless on its making except simply shehehiyanu which was fit to bless as it is taught one who makes a sukkah for oneself blesses shehehiyanu.When one enters into sit blesses blessed are you God the Lord King of the world who has commanded us with His commandments to dwell in a sukkah, but we arrange it upon the Kiddush cup and shehehiyanu upon a cup takes care of also the sukkah

1. The Blessing Shehecheyanu is Not Recited over the Construction of a Sukkah: One who constructs a sukkah, whether for himself or for someone else, does not make a blessing upon its construction. Shehehiyanu is appropriate to be said when one constructs a sukkah for himself. However, we rely on the blessing shehehiyanu that we recite during Kiddush on the [first] night of Yom-Tov that [is recited] because of the mitzvah of sanctifying the festival, which is also a mitzvah that comes [only] periodically. (The one blessing covers both requirements).

RAMA: If one does not eat in the sukkah on the first night, even though he sanctifies the festival in his house, when he does eat in the sukkah he must sanctify the festival due to the sukkah. If he sanctifies the festival at the time of construction of the sukkah, it is sufficient for him [R"an].