Ushpizin

It is the custom during sukkot to invite people to eat and celebrate with you in your sukkah and even though we are only 2 days into sukkot we have had ushpizin and we have been ushpizin. But either way we have been having a great time.


Everyone does their sukkah's a little different we have even heard (not seen yet) about one of the sukkahs that has a waterfall in it. But, we like our little sukkah it has the kids on the walls to remind me of when they were small and we were doing this for the first time. We had such a great time cramped but great, eating in our little sukkah now it is bigger and all that we have this week is Ashleigh, Barry and Me to eat in there, that is when we are not off being ushpizin at someone else's sukkah.

On Friday night for shabbat and the first night of sukkah we had the havurah over. Les and Melinda, Ronnie and Mike, Mark and Marla, Allison and the Judge and Janice. It was a nice easy evening and the food was great (Marla made kuggel) And this is for you Celia and Sam.

Anyway, yesterday was Shabbat and after we did a little torah study with our group at the Freeman's sukkah (they all send their regards) during which Barry fell asleep on the sofa and that is where we learned about ushpizin and that we are required to be happy for the whole 8 days (it says so three times in the torah). So we are trying to be happy here and I hope you are all trying where ever you are.

Then we had dinner with Ashleighs USY crew at the Weingartens sukkah, now they have a big sukkah, we are talking a table that will seat 20 plus. Our little sukkah is not quite there yet.

But this morning I did have a little breakfast (it was nice no Hebrew High so we slept in) in the sukkah this morning and I did talk to Sam while I was sitting in the sukkah She is going to the Negev for survival training tomorrow morning. Her statement was "3 days in the desert with no shower... My friends are going to see a whole new side of me and it might not be pretty, and it definitely won't smell good"