Sukkah

Miracle before Simchat Torah

The powerful impact caused significant damage to parts of the sukkah’s roof structure.

When the skies are open

On Yom Kippur, we stood before HaKadosh Baruch Hu and asked for life. Now, in the sukkah, as the Flydubai miracle occurred, we are reminded how much of life we simply take for granted.

'We see eternity'

99-year-old Auschwitz survivor dances with Jerusalem yeshiva dean

Dov Landau, a 99-year-old Auschwitz survivor, visits Rabbi Baruch Wieder’s sukkah in Jerusalem. Pointing to Landau, the rabbi tells guests: “We see eternity."

Sukkah Fortress

The strength required to build our home, that is, our national homeland, must be spiritual might, the might of the festival, the might of God’s eternal word.

Celebrating Sukkot under fire:

IDF deploys 2,200 tactical sukkahs

The IDF Military Rabbinate distributes 18,500 sukkahs, including 2,200 tactical models designed to conceal troops, and 13,000 Four Species sets.

Lion to world diplomats:

Move embassies to Jerusalem

At a festive Sukkot reception, Mayor Moshe Lion urges more countries to open embassies in Jerusalem, while Huckabee praises the city's unique character.

Huckabee:

US Embassy will have ‘forever home’ in Jerusalem

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee celebrates Sukkot in Jerusalem, declaring the city Israel’s eternal capital and discussing plans for a permanent US Embassy building.

The door Is open. Our existence Is not up for debate.

Jews and their communal leaders cannot and must not be expected to lend the warmth of our welcome to people who excuse our murderers, reject our right to exist or treat our grief as an obstacle to their cause. Opinion.

The first schach - born of transgression

Kosher schach (sukkah 'roof') has to be פסולת גורן ויקב: of the waste of the wheat and vines - the wheat and the grapes themselves cannot be used for schach, as they receive impurity. Where does this waste come from?

The Sukkah of faith, the Sukkah of redemption

Rabbeinu Bechayye ben Asher (Spain, 1255-1340), in his encyclopaedic work Kad ha-Kemach, offers some startling philosophical-kabbalistic insights into the significance of the Sukkah.

One mitzvah leads to another:

MDA team treats woman, then builds her sukkah

After treating a Netanya woman struck by a pole while building her sukkah, MDA responders decided to stay behind and finish the sukkah for her.

The ‘kol dichfin’ call of Sukkot

The sukkah is fragile and temporary, but the welcome we create within it can be strong and lasting.

84-year-old killed in tragic balcony fall while building sukkah

An 84-year-old man was killed in Efrat after falling from his balcony while preparing to build a sukkah at his home.

Reflections on the hostages' return:

The fragile sukkah - lessons of hope and protection

Your life, even if it is incomplete, even if it is fragile, is still a gift. Notice the openings, the small moments of relief, the return of the hostages.They are part of Hashem’s care, a taste of the greater shalom to come.

The highest sukkah in Israel

The military rabbi of the IDF post on the peak of Mount Hermon sends holiday greetings from the highest and northernmost sukkah in Israel.

A living sukkah

The Sukkah is temporary just like our stay in this world, but it is a permanent fixture to deliver mitzvot to the next world.

Rehovot:

75-year-old falls to his death while building a sukkah

A 75-year-old man was killed after falling from the balcony of his home while building a sukkah. Medical teams pronounced him dead at the scene.

Central Israel:

Man falls to death while dismantling sukkah

A 59-year-old man fell 5 meters while dismantling his sukkah in Givat Shmuel. He was critically wounded and later pronounced dead.

The energy of the Sukkah: Lean in to the Divine embrace

My love will be stronger than your defiance, says G-d, the parent of all of us.

Nuanced Sukkah spaces

Open even a small space like the eye of a needle for G-d, said our Sages, and He will widen it till it is the size of a hall. Read how the laws of a kosher sukkah reference that inspiring and hopeful idea.

It is Cheshvan and our sukkah is still standing

The men who would have taken it down are all in the army, but maybe is tells a message written long ago by King David.

'An act of antisemitism':

Sign stolen from Chabad sukkah in Jerusalem

Hours after a sukkah is vandalized in Ness Ziona, vandal pulls down and makes off with signs from Chabad-run public sukkah in Jerusalem.

An embrace from God

Emuah Essay: The holiday of Sukkot has the power to give us a boost of emunah for the entire year. It tells us that God is embracing us.

Largest sukkah in the world built in Jerusalem

World's largest sukkah is built on an area of 800 sqm and accommodates 650 people at a time.

Eretz Yisrael and the Sukkot holiday

The difference between Emunah in Israel and other nations.

Sukkot: Our protective fortress

Israel's first Chief Rabbi asks: Why should such a flimsy structure be a paradigm of protection and safety? 

My love will be stronger than your defiance

We can all use a hug: the power of the sukkah.

Why is this holiday called "Sukkot"?

And why did the Tur say that Sukkot is for Yaakov Avinu?

Man burns down 4 sukkahs in Ashdod

Residents draw link between assault on Yom Kippur worshippers in Tel Aviv and arson against family sukkahs in Ashdod.

The Sukkah as a parable for the Diaspora - it's only temporary

Eventually, if you try to live in it after the holiday, a sukkah will collapse. Come back inside, come home.

Man injured in fall while building sukkah

A businessman from Rehovot was injured falling from a ladder as he built his sukkah.

'World's largest sukkah' returns to Jerusalem

800-square meter sukkah, dubbed the "Mayor's Sukkah,' to be erected in Safra Square, hold a wide range of activities for the public.

New York City:

Police arrest firefighter who vandalized sukkah

According to authorities, the NYFD member kicked the sukkah, causing damage to the structure, and urinated in it.

The faith of the Jewish people differs from other nations/

The sukkah represents faith, a particular trait of the Nation of Israel whose responsibility it is to impart faith to the nations.

The festival of gathering: Take what you can

Take the life lost in the dark corner of your dwellings, take from the trees you brush past and enter into the festival of gathering

On the third day, schach was created!

Had it not been for the seeming ‘failure’ of the earth to comply with Hashem’s words when trees were created, we could not have had schach!

Manhattan sukkah vandalized before Sukkot

Man caught on video vandalizing Upper East Side sukkah before witness intervenes.

An allegory for Sukkot

A sukkah is a temporary dwelling. What happens to those to whom it becomes a permanent one even though a beautiful home awaits them?

Some relevant laws for the mitzva of sitting in the Sukkah

What to do if it rains, who is obligated to eat in the sukkah and what foods obligate eating in it. A primer for the holiday.

Selected laws of building a Sukkah

Despite its being a temporary dwelling, the Sukkah has rules on how it is to be built.

Four people injured in sukkah collapse

In Jerusalem's Meah She'arim neighborhood, a sukkah built on stilts collapses, injuring four people.

Over 1,000 Jews ascend Temple Mount today

Hundreds of residents of Har Bracha ascend Temple Mount together. Visitors able to pray at holy site.

Special Sukkot celebration at Netanya Children's Home

Emunah Netanya holds celebration at Children's Home which has seen fewer visitors during COVID pandemic.

Sukkot: The powerful festival of two in-gatherings

‘Every native in Israel shall dwell in Sukkot’(Emor 23;42), teaches that ‘all of Israel are deserving to sit in one Succah.’

Repentance Again? Sukkot is the perfect time to repent

Those who repent out of fear, transform deliberate sins into inadvertent sins.Those who repent out of love, transform them into merits.

While most people put up sukkahs, police are taking them down

Two sukkahs, at least one of which had engineering permits, dismantled by police in Jerusalem.

The Sukkah of Peace

Peace between us means we do not insist on unconditional surrender and accept not getting everything we want. The Succah.shows that. Op-ed

Besieged hilltop residents forbidden to build sukkah

Residents of the Samaria neighborhood of Kumi Ori in Samaria were told today that military restrictions forbade them to build a sukkah.

Invisible roof

I feel tremendous hope in the air. Hold on tight for this year of Amazement. Opinion

Jewish at night

Insights for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.

Forty years in the sukka

Forty years of living in sukkot were a lesson in what this world really is. They woke up every day to see flimsy walls blowing in the wind.

Why is Sukkot a universal holiday for all the nations?

Why are 70 bulls offered on Sukkot? Why will all nations be required to observe Sukkot in the future?

A sukka miracle in New York

Rabbi Nachman taught that the mitzva of sukka is a "segula" for coming to Eretz Yisrael. I can attest to that!

How can we be commanded to be joyful?

The holiday of Sukkot is the antidote to the fractured hearts of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The imaginary walls of a sukka

Without the Oral Law's detailed descriptions, we would not be able to build the more open sukkas we need this year.

The magnitude of G-d's Voice

The magnitude of Hashem's voice is perceived in accordance with the spiritual intensity of the respective place and situation.

Watch: Building a Sukkah on top of IDF headquarters

This Sukkot, IDF soldiers built a Sukkah on top of the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv to celebrate the holiday.

A temporary dwelling and the global pandemic

The sukkah, symbolizing the transience of the material world, takes on new meaning in a time when a plague has subdued human arrogance.

Succoth: The role of the lowly willow

Torah from Israel's first Chief Rabbi, iconic leader of Religious Zionism: The willow represents the unlearned, blessed with common sense.

Our world is a Sukkah and G-d is its cover

We can fly to the moon and Mars but we cannot guarantee ourselves a safe dwelling. For that, we have to rely on G-d. Sukkot memories.