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October 20, 2005
Sukkah-hopping
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The halacha of sukkah-building, channeled through Dr Seuss. (via Rabbi Fleischmann)
Here's how the Samaritans do it:
This photo and more on the Samaritans by Muqata.
Here's how the Brits do it:
I couldn't get over how lovely it is to build yourself this little room of greenery, and how wonderful it looks to look up at the sky through the chinks between the green boughs of the roofing, how magical it is to eat out there in the evening in candlelight, and to look up at all the colours of the grapes, the pomegranates, the apples and dates hanging from the boughs.(They also engage in sukkah-hopping in her neck of the woods.)
Like Adloyada, this year we New Yorkers have been blessed with Indian summer in time for Sukkot (after a cold pouring rain on Yom Kippur). It's been a bit chilly in the evening, but satisfying the imperative to eat in the sukkah every day has never been easier. Between two synagogues, two independent minyans, and a fellow blogger, I've got most days covered.
So far I've had two lunches and one dinner, one lunch courtesy of Steven I. Weiss (no relation), who sent out an email inviting people to join him in his sukkah on Grand Street. As I found out after walking some long blocks, his apartment complex is about as lower and east as you can get on the Lower East Side before falling into the East River.
The neighborhood is mostly Orthodox and the sukkah I entered was one of several communal ones in the same complex. It was huge and filled with laughing chatting families unpacking food containers, making brochas, and eating. I didn't see Steven right away and a family invited me to eat with them. The husband was a Lubavitch rabbi, his wife was from Tel Aviv, and they had two toddlers. (You can say what you want about the Lubavitch, but they are serious about hachnassat orchim.) I offered to donate the etrog liqueur I had brought, and with the help of some of their friends we made a pretty good dent in it. (Steven and his buds showed up later and took over a table, but I didn't feel right abandoning the Lubovitch family which had been so hospitable.)
Judith | 10/20/05 at 12:08 PM | Categories: - Chagim
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