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Post by hollygail on Oct 4, 2023 6:40:58 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by hollygail on Oct 4, 2023 6:44:17 GMT -5
The next two interpretations of the meaning of the sukkah, according to Rabbi Ronald Isaacs, follow.
5. The sukkah commemorates the first hut/booth built by Abraham when he greeted the three angels (Numbers Rabbah 14).
6. The mention of the Exodus from Egypt in connection with the mitzvah of the sukkah implies that the sukkah also serves as a memorial to the miracles of the Exodus (Tur, Orach Chayim 625).
Your take on either/both of these interpretations? Do you have anything to add? Or about something else having to do with the sukkah?
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Post by lee058 on Oct 4, 2023 6:52:28 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE!
Re today's topic: I have nothing to add, but wanted to say hello.
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by louise on Oct 4, 2023 8:09:51 GMT -5
I don't have anything to add to this either - kind of seems like a stretch.
We had a lovely dinner in our synagogue sukkah. The whole meal was cooked in our rather skimpily equippped kitchen and we were very excited about that. We got a new oven that we can actually cook in (previously had only a warming oven that didn't go over 200 degrees) and with that and several slow cookers going we turned out a vegetarian feast. A friend and I made a ton of Israeli salad. Some interesting baked goods were picked up - we had a challah in the shape of a luav and etrog, a cake shaped like an etrog all decked out in yellow buttercream, and a 7-layer cake decorated to look like a sukkah complete with green buttercream skoch. Was good holiday fun.
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Post by peachymom1 on Oct 4, 2023 9:15:59 GMT -5
I don't find these two interpretations particularly meaningful, except to remind me that I'm chanting a lot of Vayera this year, which is the Torah portion with Abraham and the visiting angels. I need to get cracking on that - I've read them before, but it's a lot, so I need to get busy.
I'm imagining all the goodies at Louise's celebration - how wonderful it sounds!
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