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SUKKOT IN LA

Serious Sukkah Envy

10. 14. 14

I DIDN’T SCHEDULE FIVE Sukkot interviews just to stockpile rabbis. For me, the secret kick of this expedition has been the excuse to query some of the thinkers I admire most: “Tell me, Rabbi, why Sukkot matters in this day and age. Since it starts just five days after Yom Kippur, the holiday has always seemed to me like an excuse for a Jewish arts-and-crafts project that arrives too soon on the heels of synagogue saturation.”