What does everyone's sukka look like? How are they decorated?
My family's is a bit...unusual. Here are some photos of it: http://righteousrasha.blogspot.com/2009/10/sukkaerev-yom-tov-photos.html
Good yom tov!
Sukka Decorations
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Gila
offlineMemberI went to Chabad for dinner last night, and the rebbetzin spoke about the fact that their sukkah is deliberately bare, without any decorations at all. It was a beautiful speech, and I don't think I can do it justice, but in a nutshell, she said that in the spirit of zman simchatenu, she and her husband intended the "decorations" to come from the hundreds of students who came in to the sukkah. Every person who sat down to dinner, every song we sang, every joke we told, etc. was another "decoration", and in that sense, the Chabad sukkah was the most elaborately adorned sukkah around campus, even with its plain canvas walls.
When I'm at home for Sukkot, we usually put up Rosh Hashanah greeting cards, homemade paper chains, and plastic fruit. When my brother and I were younger, we used to make sukkah decorations in school.
Posted 11 months ago # -
Wow, Gila! Very nice. I've always found the Lubavitch non-decoration intriguing.
It makes our sukka, with its tinsel and Christmas lights, seem positively goyish.
I came to shul (early, in fact) both days of yom tov, though. It was the first time I'd seen Hoshanos done in years!
Posted 11 months ago #
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