Celebrating Sukkot
Admission Admission • October 7, 2022
Happy Sukkot Holiday to everyone. We are celebrating a weeklong holiday that comes five days after Yom Kippur.
Sukkot celebrates two main elements: 1. Gathering of the harvest season, and 2. Commemorates the miraculous protection G-d provided for the children of Israel when they left Egypt and walked through the dessert. During that time our nation dwelled in temporary shelter.
We celebrate Sukkot by dwelling in a foliage-covered booth (known as a Sukkah) and by taking the “Four Kinds” (arba minim), four special species of vegetation. We decorate our Sukkah, and we spend time playing and eating in the Sukkah.
We welcome all our parents to our Soup in the Sukkah Party next week.
Today, our toddler class (Te'ena) enjoyed learning about the sukkah through our play sukkah. They enjoyed seeing their friends through the window and sitting with them together inside.
The Te'ena and Rimon classes performed the mitzvah of Ushpizin in the sukkah together and learned about the four species.
The Zayit class learned about the characteristics of a sukkah and what is considered a sukkah. They examined the different characteristics that define a sukkah - 4 walls, being able to see the sky, and s'chach that is made of plants and that is not attached to the roof.
They learned the Hebrew words: Wall (kir - קיר) - Roof Covering (Schach - סכך), & Guests (Ushpizin - אושפיזין).
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