Happy Sukkot

The Jewish holiday (yes, another one) of Sukkot is almost upon us. Which for me means fun times in our Sukkah with the family, copious amounts of barbecued cow, and shaking my lulav.

Yeah, you heard me right.

To my Jewish readers, Chag Sameach!

To my non-Jewish readers, read here to learn what a lulav is.

I’ll be out of blogging action for at least the next 24 hours, so feel free to treat this as an open thread.

9 thoughts on “Happy Sukkot”

  1. I don't like to generalize (a very dangerous thing), but I've been led to believe that there are a number of Jews who do not like to work with their hands. Things like home auto repair, installing a new hot water heater, reroofing, or building a sukkah. So for Sukkot are there ready-made sukkahs you can buy at Home Depot?

    1. well – proportionally, there are probably as many Jews who don't like working with their hands as any other nation. They can always buy one of these: http://www.sukah.co.il/default.asp
      If you don't read Hebrew, the four big buttons across the bottom will take you to sukah frames, walls, rolls of "schach" (every sucah needs a roof of natural vegetative matter, such as rush matting, palm leaves or wooden slats).

      This can't really be considered advertizing – for these guys, since everyone who cares has already built one, you see….

      J.

    2. We had one prebuilt at our house and we just throw some corn stalks on top…although we havent done it in awhile cause we fail.

    3. It's more of a stereotype as opposed to a generalization. It kind of came about when all those jokes about jewish mothers wanting their daughters to marry "professionals" aka doctors and lawyers.

      But from what I've seen, it's more or less true. While I know many jews involved in professions like plumbing and home repair, it is rare for your average observant jew to build sheds or tinker with his car in his spare time. The only person I know who does this is my father-in-law and he takes pride in the fact that he's an enthusiast unlike his buddies.

      But to answer your question, sukkahs are the one time a year "non handy" jews have to do construction. But you'll rarely find a sukkah that needs a power tool to build it. Most are made of pre-fabricated materials that can easily be put together.

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