"There are actually volumes upon volumes of rabbinic conversation about building sukkahs," Rabbi Weiss says.
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They had prayed at the Western Wall, eaten in sukkahs and vacationed in the warm weather.
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Ahead, we've rounded up some of the most stunning sukkahs on Instagram from this year and Sukkots past.
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The weeklong Jewish holiday Sukkot begins today, and Jewish people around the world are spending it in temporary structures known as sukkahs.
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Friends, aunts and uncles, even our synagogue built sukkahs that looked like camping tents in the backyard, made from purchased kits of plastic walls.
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With Sukkot, the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty coinciding with this year's Detroit Design Festival, the sukkahs on display in nearby Capitol Park are quite innovative and tasteful.
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Rabbi Ari D. Weiss of Cornell Hillel tells Refinery29 that sukkahs are meant to mimic the huts or booths that the Israelites lived in while wandering in the desert (thus their impermanence).
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From simple wooden beam structures to shelters that look more like modern art than anything else, sukkahs in 2017 run the gamut in appearance — and, thankfully, their designers are more than happy to share them on social media.
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And since the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty happens to coincide with this year's Detroit Design Festival and Month of Design, the sukkahs on display for the week in nearby Capitol Park are a lot more innovative and tasteful than your neighbor's 14-foot Santa Claus inflatable.
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Pedi-Sukkahs see the normally stationary build of a Sukkah placed on the back of a mobile vehicle, usually a 3-wheeled bicycle. The pedi- Sukkah was introduced by Levi Duchman in 2009 and has since spread to at least 15 states and 5 countries.
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The "people's choice award" sukkah was entitled Fractured Bubble,and was designed by Long Island City architects Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan."Traditional Sukkahs Reinterpreted at Union Square in NY", Tim McDevitt, September 21, 2010, Epoch Times. Archived from dead url on September 24, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
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Flags for Simchat-Torah were also made by cheder pupils. Created from colourful paper, each paper cut symbolized one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The other side of the paper showed an image of Torah with moving doors cut in paper. Paper cuts made for Sukkot were formed into lanterns, chains and birds, hung in Sukkahs.
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In the 14th century, the reading of Genesis was added immediately upon the completion of Deuteronomy and the Shulhan Arukh (written about 1565)OC אורח חיים תרסט see Mishnah Berurah volume 6 page 272 only mentions this without mentioning the presumably later custom of southern European countries to remove all the Torah scrolls from the ark and to sing a separate hymn for each one. In northern European countries, those who had finished the reading of Deuteronomy made donations to the synagogue, after which the wealthier members of the community would give a dinner for friends and acquaintances. By the end of the 15th century, it was a common though not universal practice for the children to tear down and burn the sukkahs on Simhat Torah.Maharil, cited in OC Darchei Moshe 669:3) In the 16th century, the practice of taking out the scrolls and filing solemnly around the bimah on the night of the 23rd of Tishri became customary; and on the same evening, after the procession, a number of passages from the Torah were read.
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