This Wednesday night is the start of the Sukkot season.
If it's your first year to do Sukkot or if you are just getting into the biblical Feasts this one is great for the family. Grab some scrap lumber or bamboo or whatever you can get your hands on (I used mostly PVC pipes one year) and build your Sukkah!
I mean the Hebrew word Sukkah, not the Russian word which means female dog... yes the bad way too
The mitzvah is to build a Sukkah (Booth) a pseudo-cube shaped structure and to ישב (YeSHeV) in it.
This is an interesting word because it can mean "sit" or it can mean "dwell" like "live in".
So in our tradition we consider that mitvah fulfilled if you just eat a meal (sit) in the Sukkah but of course it's best to be thorough and more fun!
In Israel this time of year you see Sukkot (plural of Sukkah) all over the place. It's a dangerous time for construction sites as there are no Lowes in Israel and coming across Lumber is not so easy and kids will ironically steal from a construction site to build a Sukkah haha. So construction sites are on lock down now.
You can get really creative with your Sukkah.
In Jewish tradition we like to decorate it with various fruits hanging by strings and usually we cover it with some kind of leafy tree branch, palm branch etc. We do other fun stuff on this holiday like waving tree branches around and shaking fruits ... more to come.
It's a great time for kids and reminds us how our ancestors dwelled in Sukkot as they wandered.
There are some neat deep things about this holiday but for now I just want to remind folks it's coming up.
BTW I like to use holiday lights on my sukkah.
Here is a good resource for folks just getting into the holidays and/or learning Hebrew
Hebrew 4 Christians Sukkot celebration the site balances between Messianic and Hebrew roots so it's a resource that should keep most of us happy in this forum.
On Sukhot we actually MUST be happy. It's referenced as z'man simchateinu - the season of our joy!
חג שמח chag sameach!
If it's your first year to do Sukkot or if you are just getting into the biblical Feasts this one is great for the family. Grab some scrap lumber or bamboo or whatever you can get your hands on (I used mostly PVC pipes one year) and build your Sukkah!
I mean the Hebrew word Sukkah, not the Russian word which means female dog... yes the bad way too
The mitzvah is to build a Sukkah (Booth) a pseudo-cube shaped structure and to ישב (YeSHeV) in it.
This is an interesting word because it can mean "sit" or it can mean "dwell" like "live in".
So in our tradition we consider that mitvah fulfilled if you just eat a meal (sit) in the Sukkah but of course it's best to be thorough and more fun!
In Israel this time of year you see Sukkot (plural of Sukkah) all over the place. It's a dangerous time for construction sites as there are no Lowes in Israel and coming across Lumber is not so easy and kids will ironically steal from a construction site to build a Sukkah haha. So construction sites are on lock down now.
You can get really creative with your Sukkah.
In Jewish tradition we like to decorate it with various fruits hanging by strings and usually we cover it with some kind of leafy tree branch, palm branch etc. We do other fun stuff on this holiday like waving tree branches around and shaking fruits ... more to come.
It's a great time for kids and reminds us how our ancestors dwelled in Sukkot as they wandered.
There are some neat deep things about this holiday but for now I just want to remind folks it's coming up.
BTW I like to use holiday lights on my sukkah.
Here is a good resource for folks just getting into the holidays and/or learning Hebrew
Hebrew 4 Christians Sukkot celebration the site balances between Messianic and Hebrew roots so it's a resource that should keep most of us happy in this forum.
On Sukhot we actually MUST be happy. It's referenced as z'man simchateinu - the season of our joy!
חג שמח chag sameach!