Sukkot

We are not protected. What good, then, is the sukkah? What good, then, is divine accompaniment? (Click image to read more)

When we pause our self improvement project, we discover that we are already dwelling in God’s house. (Click image to read more)

Becoming a sukkah, feeling that divine spaciousness inside us and being the host that welcomes all visitors. (Click image to read more)

It turns out that emotionally, the way that we enter God’s house is to allow ourselves to sit in the sukkah, to sit in our vulnerability and uncertainty . . . (Click image to read more)

Maybe what we leave behind in our homes is as important as the sukkah we build. (Click image to read more)

Both of the principle mitzvot of Sukkot involve creating a sacred space around yourself.   We shake the lulav and etrog in six directions around us — to the four sides, and above and below — as if designating a circle around us; this is where God is, we are saying, all around us.  And

The Kotzker rebbe is reported to have said that one of the things we should learn from a child is how to be happy. Sukkot would be a good time to learn. For Sukkot is called zeman simkhatenu, “the time of our joy.” The Torah does not just say to rejoice on Sukkot, as on other