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Sukkot - 15-21 Tishrei
Shmini Atzeret - 22 Tishrei
Simchat Torah - 23 Tishrei
Tzedakah (charity) is the most magnificent adornment of the Sukkah.
—Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz (1793-1876)
Learn more about the historical (and agricultural) significance
of Sukkot, which commemorates the Israelites’ wanderings in the desert following
their Exodus from Egypt, when they lived in portable shelters (booths). Try these
resources for integrating tzedakah/social
action programming into this year’s Sukkot week-long celebration.
- In the
spirit of the Ushpizin, the tradition
of welcoming one of the seven biblical leaders to the sukkah each night of Sukkot, invite someone to your sukkah who is alone or needs a place
to eat.
- Have
your school or synagogue partner with Habitat
for Humanity to help build a house – a permanent sukkah—for someone in need.
- If you
are in grades 5 thru 9, enter the 2007 Bnai
Mitzvah Essay Contest sponsored by JVibe,
the national magazine and website for Jewish teens, and Areyvut. How and why did
you incorporate the values of chesed
(kindness), tzedakah (charity) and
tikkun olam (social justice) into
your Bnai Mitzvah celebration?
By SHARON HALPER
Sharon Halper, Jewish educator and creator of the hunger-fighting
program MANNA, writes about Sukkot
as a time to remember what we learned when we lived in “booths.” “Tikkun olam muscles have to be exercised
to be strong. Live history this Sukkot!”
By RABBI RICHARD JACOBS
The experience of building and living briefly in sukkot connects us to the Israelites who
wandered in the African desert, living in temporary make-shift "booths,"
as well as to the millions of displaced African refugees living full-time in modest
huts that resembled sukkot, because they
have no choice.
During Sukkot, we pay special attention to the importance and
value of water. Check out “True Joy, Through Water,” a holiday program sponsored
by Canfei Nesharim that offers environmentally-friendly resources for Sukkot and
Shemini Atzeres, including eco-friendly lulavim
and estrogim and family/community activities
for decorating the Sukkah.
Produced by the Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism
Families, social action chairs, educators, youth group and other
synagogue leaders will find many projects that join together the themes of Sukkot
with social action in this wonderful guide produced by the RAC.
By RABBI NANCY FUCHS-KREIMER
Sukkot can be a time to move outdoors into a humbler and simpler
dwelling, to remind us that we can live more simply so that others simply may live.
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