Sukkot

Sukkot

A unique Jewish and boyish / goyish tradition?

2024 / 5785

Dwelling in a "hut, hut - HIKE!" for 7 or 8 days?  Oh, what's the use of this?

In Israel the first day is super important - when not dwelling in Israel the first two days are extremely important.  The holiday comes after Yom Kippur, where HaShem stamps the outcome for the entire world (both Jew and non-Jew alike).  For the religious jew (and perhaps even for religious or secular non jew), Hashem grants us an golden opportunity to 'sweeten the positive judgements and mitigate, modify or delay' the negative judgements.  A precious time indeed.  Many rabbis have varying opinions one the ideal attitude and levels of observance for the celebration.  We learnt, unfortunately and fortunately, from whomever we could.  As were were raised Christian and discovered our Jewish roots much later in life.  As the Torah states - "G-d gave Moshe - an impossible task".  Moshe negotiates and G-d says to Moshe, "do it anyways!"

We celebrated, as a family, the first Jewish holiday when I was 12 or 13 - of course, as a Christian family...

Since that time, at least in my proverbial cultural surroundings, have potentially obtained (per Rabbi Akiva Tatz of South Africa says 'a Rabbinic black belt' - a further potentially comedic sidenote given the nature (pun intended) of the place of this year's (5785/2024) sukkot celebration, in .IL.

Sukkot  -  5786 / 2025

A rabbinic celebration of...the feast of booths.  Something that 'we' and my family have meagerly celebrated since roughly 9 or 10 years old.  

Chametz cleaning

The final search for Chametz

The celebration

The 49 or 53 counting of the Omer

"We / They / I" found a few of moe's leaves - but, Mo-gul left!

A CAT / ACT successfully inspected the Sukkot hut and seemingly approved?

For the most part, there are no longer any leaves in the Sukkot hut / booth.

The Graham / Pinkham / Spencers' with Romero / Baca / Gonzales / etc.' after Sukkot for my brothers birthday - Baruch HaShem! - Kato, my little yellow friend was kinda there, or something...working on various 'start-ups'...Solomon Schecter?!

Perhaps a few good ideas in the short 3 or 4 minute recording about kosher and hallal restaurants, kosher certification of foodstuffs and halal certification of foodstuffs and drinks.

A version of a Sukkot Hut 5787 : 2026 : Not Yet Completed!

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi : Reaching Knowledge of Charity : 8th Law?

The rules of Charity, some say, are perplexing.  In other words, a Rabbi or a Chabad website is fantastic, however, there are hidden rules to Charity that can become perplexing and complicated.  Not because they are intellectually complicated, but because each and every individual discovers who is ideal and worth of Charity, in the context of their world.  In other words, some religions, perhaps, say that all Charity is intrinsically good, however, according to some sources, the way of the Torah, says something that involves a level of thoughtfulness, introspection and more importantly Mitzvos and Torah.  In other words, the corrections of "Yakkov's Ladder" the "DNA" is successfully reached when realizing various originations of learnings.  During Sukkot, amongst other Jewish holidays, Originations become somewhat learned?

Simchat Torah of 5787 Sukkot?