We’ve just completed our Annual Spiritual Marathon,
from Elul to Yom Kippur,
spending 40 days on our personal Mount Sinai.
It’s time for a break,
a break from spiritual work,
time for spiritual play,
a cabin in the wilderness.
Sukkot is joytime.
Spending time in a sukkah
is spending time closer to the earth that sustains us.
Sukkot evokes the 40 years in the Sinai and
the crop harvesters whose nonstop work keeps us fed.
As we shake the myrtle, palm, willow, and citron,
we are transported to the Land of our People,
breathing in the Source of our People,
breathing in the Source.
