Sukkot Redux

October 8, 2006 - 7:41 PM by Sarah

Yael sums up the holiday of Sukkot: The why’s, the what’s, and the how’s. An exerpt:

Beyond being fed incredible quantities of incredible food among a really incredibly nice family, Succot is a pretty major holiday for Jews. Succot means booths or huts. In Israel, outside of Tel Aviv, nearly every family has their own Succah (hut) and it is really a very cool thing to see. Unfortunately, the camera wasn’t working because I was again trying to take pictures at night, when the succot are at their prime –lit from within and incredibly festive. Last night, staying in the midst of a religious moshav, we were asking ourselves do people really sleep in their Succah as in days gone by …the answer to that came quite quickly as we peered out the window and down into the garden of the neighboring house. The neighbor’s family succah was just below the window and we could easily make out the prone figure of the man of the house slumbering away within it. So yes, some people do indeed sleep in theirs. While not everyone does so, just about everyone eats in theirs –a huge and festive evening meal filled with family and friends.

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