Festival of Sukkot Weekend Events
Shabbat Dinner Under the Stars
Friday, Sept. 24
7 p.m. Dinner
Optional Services at 6:30 p.m.
At the Rohr Jewish Student Chabad House
100 Bloomfield Ave
Exit campus left, 5 doors down
All students welcome for a festive dinner in the Chabad Chevra Sukkah at 100 Bloomfield Ave. Come for the food, stay for the friends.
Sushi in the Sukkah
Sunday, Sept. 2
Beginning 5 p.m.
As long as supplies last
In our Campus Sukkah in front of Commons Dining Hall
Celebrate Sukkot with delicious kosher sushi.
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Mark you calendar and get ready to celebrate the most joyous day on the Jewish calendar, Simchat Torah.
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m.
More to come!
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Chabad Chevra
Your Home Away from Home
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What is Sukkot?
A sukkah (plural, sukkot ; sukkoth, often translated as "booth") is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes. The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) describes it as a symbolic wilderness shelter, commemorating the time G-d provided for the Israelites in the wilderness they inhabited after they were freed from slavery in Egypt. It is common for Jews to eat, sleep and otherwise spend time in the sukkah. In Judaism, Sukkot is considered a joyous occasion and is referred to in Hebrew as Yom Simchateinu (the day of our rejoicing) or Z'man Simchateinu (the time of our rejoicing), and the sukkah itself symbolizes the frailty and transience of life and its dependence on G-d.
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For more information, call or text the Rabbi at
860-997-2921