Category: Sukkot

The Sea Calls Me Home: A Ritualwell Meditation and Playlist for Passover
By Shoshana Lovett-Graff
October 13, 2019
A roundup of creative Sukkot resources
One Day in Your House: An Interfaith Musical Sukkot Offering
By Rabbis Yosef Goldman & Annie Lewis
September 28, 2018
May our prayers and voices weave together to draw the Divine presence near.
#Wetoo Dwell in Booths: Sukkot During the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings
By Maria Pulzetti
September 26, 2018
The sukkah protects the vulnerable … and it exposes the violators
Shelters: What If It's Not Enough?
By Heather Paul
October 10, 2017
This, I believe, is why the High Holidays are followed immediately by Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. Five days after we acknowledge mortality, Sukkot is a celebration of the temporary.
Communal Exhaustion and the Gift of Sukkot
Ariana Katz
October 3, 2017
After almost two months of rising to the challenge of repentance and renewal, granting one another second chances for each other and ourselves, we get a second to sit down.
Healing Through Uncertainty: Lessons From Sukkot
By Sue Gurland
October 2, 2015
Sukkot invites us to live more fully present lives.
Altered Harvest: Sukkot and Climate Change
By Rav Kohenet Jill Hammer
October 1, 2015
The sukkah is one profound place to remember the effects of global scorching on all of us.
Sukkat Shalom: October 4th
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
September 3, 2015
Every once in a long while, different streams of time flow together in a way that seems uncanny—even miraculous.
Wrapped in a Shelter of Peace
By Sarah Barasch-Hagans
October 6, 2014
When I imagine wearing my tallit in Ferguson and afterward, I am imagining how it will help carry with me a sense of security and home—a portable home just like the sukkah. 
You Shall Have Nothing But Joy
September 28, 2012
We don’t want Yom Kippur to leave us in a slump, struggling to pick ourselves up.  Instead, we must embrace joy so that we may restore balance in the world, in our community, and within ourselves.

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