South Philadelphia Shtiebel: Ushpizin-Inspired Sukkot Learning
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Welcome to our Ushpizin-Inspired Sukkot Learning sheet!
Please find a list of resources and suggested material to explore with your chaburah group. Feel free to click around and discover where your learning will take you.
Please find a list of resources and suggested material to explore with your chaburah group. Feel free to click around and discover where your learning will take you.
Explore the "Sukkot on Sefaria" Collection, by Sefaria Education
A collection of Sukkot resources suitable for a variety of ages and learning environments.
Some Featured Sheets:
- Scaling Back - A Sukkot Conversation Starter A conversation starter for the holiday of Sukkot. Why do we live in sukkot during the holiday? What do we learn from living minimally and being exposed to the elements?
- Finding Joy in All the Right Places An exploration of texts speaking about the role of joy and happiness and how we can attain it.
- Ushpizin: Welcoming Virtual Guests What's the value of being welcoming when we can't host people physically, and how do we decide whose presence we yearn for in these celebratory moments?
- Sukkot and Housing Insecurity On Sukkot, we are taught that there is only complete joy when everyone - including and especially the marginalized in our communities - is celebrating joyfully as well. Though all holidays share this ethos to an extent, Sukkot can draw our attention specifically to those who are housing insecure and regularly uprooted from their own temporary dwellings.
Explore the "Not Your Grandmother's Sukkah: Sukkot from Neot Kedumim" Collection, by Sefaria Education
Study the detailed sukkah-building instructions from the Mishnah, as recreated in Neot Kedumim, the Biblical Landscape Reserve in Israel.
Some Featured Sheets:
- A Sukkah on a Camel Mishnah and photo of the sukkah on a camel as described in Mishnah Sukkah 2:3.
- A Cone-Shaped Sukkah Mishnah and photo of a cone-shaped sukkah as described in Mishnah Sukkah 1:11.
- A Double-Decker Sukkah Mishnah and photo of the double-decker sukkah in Mishnah Sukkah 1:2
- A Sukkah on a Ship Mishnah and photo of the sukkah on a ship as described in Mishnah Sukkah 2:3.
Study the "Water Songs for Sukkot" sheet by Rising Song Institute
Explore the music of the Jewish calendar with Hadar's Rising Song Institute. Source texts and seasonal prayers are interspersed with videos, songs and playlists related to various holiday themes. Listen while you learn!
