Sukkot
Submitted by Jack Kustanowitz [Silver Spring, MD] on Tue, Oct 7, 2008
As I prepare for the holiday of Sukkot, and I prepare to tell managers & coworkers why I'm taking yet another two days off in the middle of the week, and then another two days a week later, I have been trying to come up with a good explanation for the thing I've been building in my backyard.
The classical translation of sukkah is "hut", but I'm not sure that does it justice -- my association with the word hut is a thatched structure somewhere in Africa, but a sukkah is different. So we can fall back on the verse in the Torah: read more »
Jack is an Internet professional living in Silver Spring, MD. He is a proud alum of the Frisch School in Paramus, NJ as well as Boston University, where he was active at BU Hillel.
Submitted by Al Kustanowitz [Fair Lawn, NJ] on Sat, Oct 6, 2007
This Sukkot, we had the honor of hosting a relative who happens to be an esteemed rabbi and scholar. On the first day he wanted to get to shul at the start of services, a goal that I strongly support but don’t often achieve. So I sent him off, with etrog and lulav in hand, and a plan to connect a bit (maybe more than a bit) later. read more »
Al Kustanowitz is a marketing consultant in the computer and publishing industries. He is the Aba of three extremely talented children and the Saba of a brilliant (and cute) grandson.
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