Our Sukkot are open to visitors.

Welcome to our lives.

Patriarchs and Matriarchs of our people.

Mixtures of Wisdom and Generosity.

 

Who do I welcome to my life?

[men]

Abraham

[women]

Sarah

 

[men]

Isaac

[women]

Rebecca

 

[men]

Jacob

[women]

Leah & Rachel

 

[men]

Moses & Aaron

[women]

Miriam

 

[men]

Deborah

[women]

David & Solomon

 

[men]

Our mothers

[women]

and our fathers

You shall live in sukkot seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in sukkot, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God.

[Lev 23:42-43]

leishev ba Sukkah.

Blessed art Thou Adonai our God Sovereign of all space and time, who makes us special with your directives and directs us to dwell in the Sukkah.

Rabbi. Eliezer says: God made us live in real sukkot.

Rabbi. Akiba says: They were the clouds of glory.

God made darkness a personal screen; dark thunderheads;

Dense clouds of the sky were God's sukkah round about.

[Psalm 18:11-12]

Can one, indeed, contemplate the expanse of clouds;

The thunderings from God's sukkah?

[Job 36:29]

Then Adonai will create over Zion and her assemblies a cloud...

for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

[Isaiah 4:5]

Bring on the clouds Adonai,

As blankets to warm us at night.

We welcome Your moist canopy over us.

© Mark Hurvitz

Last updated: October 17, 1997.