And one Rabbi that is still very much alive:
Who would you invite to your Sukkah for next year?
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
My Family's Ushpizin
Inviting Ushpizin (guests in Aramaic) into your sukkah is a wonderful tradition. There is a Kabbalistic ritual of inviting Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David like we invite Elijah to our Seders. If you are ever in an ultra-Orthodox sukkah, you might see other "guests" in the form of pictures of great rebbes. So, in this vain, in my family sukkah, we invite every year great Liberal rebbes, men and women who have shaped non-Orthodox Judaism. Here are our Ushpizin:
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