SUKKOT

Sukkot is a harvest holiday that is celebrated for eight days. We build sukkahs, huts with wall and a transparent roof so we can see the sky. The sukkah reminds us of the huts the farmers used to build when they stayed in their fields overnight during harvest time. Sukkahs are decorated with branches, leaves, fruits and vegetables. Many families eat their meals in their sukkah. Symbols of the holiday are the lulav, made of myrtle, palm and willow branches, and the etrog, a fruit shaped like a lemon.

Sukkot Services and Super Sukkot Sunday

Friday, October 2 – Erev Sukkot

5 p.m. Pizza in the Hut and Sukkah Decorating

6:15 p.m. Erev Sukkot and Shabbat Family Service, followed by a festive "Hut'n'Hearty Oneg

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
10:30 a.m. Sukkot Festival Service

Sunday, October 19
9:30 a.m. - Super Sukkot Sunday   This morning is open to the entire synagogue community and will be an enriching and fun opportunity for all – bring your children, your grandchildren, bring yourself!  Super Sukkot Sunday begins with a light breakfast of bagels, coffee and juice.  Then board Lolly the Trolley and go to the homes of fellow Fairmount Temple families to see their sukkot.  There is no charge for this wonderful morning of celebrating Sukkot with others.

To learn more, call 216-464-1330.

Activity

For Sukkot, cut open various fruits and vegetables. Which have seeds? Match the color/taste of the juice with the fresh fruit or vegetable. Then place the seeds from these fruits and vegetables in a resealable plastic bag with a wet paper towel. Keep the bag near a window. Watch what happens. Plant the sprouts and continue to watch the growth.

Song

I BUILT A LITTLE SUKKAH
(Tune: "I Made a Little Dreidel")

I built a little sukkah.
I built it out of wood.
I hammered it together.
Just as I knew I could.

Refrain:
Oh, sukkah, sukkah, sukkah,
I built it out of wood.
I hammered it together.
Just as I knew I could.

On top I placed some branches,
So I could see the sky.
Inside I hung some apples.
I hung them up so high.

Refrain

Inside I waved the lulav
And the etrog, too.
Inside I placed a table
With chars for me and you.

Refrain

Let’s eat our dinner in it.
I know it will be fun.
Come, join us if you want to.
Come, join us everyone.

Refrain

From Fun with Jewish Holiday Rhymes by Sylvia Rouss, illustrated by Lisa Steinberg. Copyright © 1992
by UAHC Press. Reprinted with permission of URJ Press.

 

Worship

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Links

UAHC Jewish Holidays - Sukkot