Sukkot is experienced with all
one’s senses—we see, smell, touch, hear and taste wonderful things during this
holiday! Today was an experiential exploration of Sukkot. We saw, heard and
smelled the four species that compose the lulav.
We are grateful to Shimon Blacker
for teaching us how to tie the reeds that hold together the three green species
of the lulav (myrtle, palm and
willow) and after tying over 120 ties, we constructed 52 lulavim. We created stars of
hope to be hung in our synagogue sukkah and, after Sukkot, our inspirational
stars will be sent to communities in distress.
We also met with Bar Argaman our
Israeli shin-shin and learned that
people often choose to make new years resolutions at Rosh Hashanah. Students wrote letters to their future selves
to be opened at Rosh Hashanah 5779.
Sunday morning classes will not be
meeting on October 8th due to the Columbus day holiday.
Moedim
l’simcha--Best wishes for an amazing Sukkot holiday!
HaMorah
Margalit (aka Gretchen Marks Brandt)
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