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Sukkot

Festive indoor dining area with a long table, wooden chairs, and decorative foliage on the ceiling.

In our backyards, on our porches, and outside our synagogues, Jews mark the fall harvest by building sturdy—yet fragile—structures out of natural materials, symbolizing both human vulnerability and God’s protection. No harvest holiday is complete without its fertility symbols, and Sukkot—when we wave the lulav and etrog—is no exception. Welcome Jewish women from throughout the ages into your sukkah as ushpizot, honored guests. Enjoy the crisp autumn air as you decorate your sukkah, then spend time with friends and family, celebrating your blessings and committing to sharing your bounty with others.

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“Rain pours through the schach open to the stars…”
Two people decorating an outdoor sukkah with greenery, under a wooden roof, with a table of supplies nearby.
“Learn to live together as the family you have always been. Together, let us be a blessing.”
purple grapes hanging on a vine
“On Sukkot we bring our disparate parts back to ourselves…”
clouds in a blue sky
“I squeeze the etrog and smell it, and my heart swells. / The mitzvah is to take the dare…”
lulav and etrog
“She had become a / living, breathing tabernacle…”
a path through tall green trees, light comes over the path
A new tikkun to add meaning to the traditional ritual.
lulav and etrog
“In Hebrew, shakan, dwelling place, often referred to a royal residence. / The rabbis gave it a feminine ending: Shekhinah. Divine mother.”
womans eye visible behind giant ferns
“Every day we exist inside unfinished business.”
woman in profile holding tree branch
“…I wish to take a redcedar frond, salal and spirea, and pacific crab apple and bring them together…”
redcedar branches
“The quest for wisdom, / The struggle for justice”
interior of a sukkah with table covered in blue tablecloth and sunlight creating shadows on a white wall

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