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often is an all-family affair (with the
hough I've never seen statistics
younger children given the job of
on how many Israeli homes
holding the bolts and nails for their
contain their own sukkah, the
elders),
it is the children whose dec-_,
percentage surely must be fairly
orations give each sukkah its unique"
high.
beauty and character.
At least in Jerusalem, immediately
When my husband and I were
after Yom Kippur it is com-
first married, we met one
mon to see sukkahs sprout-
afternoon in the religious
ing in gardens and bal-
neighborhood of Meah
conies throughout the city,
Shearim to order our
even in non-religious neigh
sukkah wood and pur-
borhoods.
chase decorations. A few
The sukkahs themselves
art
prints containing reli-
come in all shapes, sizes
gious themes, pictures of
and materials. They
Diane Schaefer
revered rabbis and a prinl—\
include the easy-to-con-
AppleTree
of the Ushpizin, the seven
struct, cloth sukkah
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shepherds of Israel who
stretched over a metal
"visit" every Jew's sukkah,
frame, which can be pur-
formed
the
bulk of our original col-
chased both in hardware stores
lection. We added a few metallic
and from the ubiquitous sidewalk
streamers,
a paper pineapple and
vendors that spring up everywhere
apple, a genuine pomegranate or
after Rosh Hashanah. The purchaser
two, and a branch of dried figs
is given the choice of numerous
to jazz up the decorations.
types and colors of canvas or plas-
Then along came Yehuda, who
tic walls.
entered day care when he was
Others build their sukkah out of
barely 2. Just before the holidays,
wood. Walls might range from "lift
he came home with a plastic bag
wood" from a giant packing crate
containing his first sukkah decora-
shipped to Israel,. to cast-off doors
tions: a bird with round stickers on
and patched boards, to wooden
it and a crayon "coloring" of a
boards made specifically for the
sukkah. These were duly tacked
sukkah.
onto the veneered walls of our
The advantage of these special
expanding sukkah, then stored
boards is that they can be added
away for next year.
to as the family grows, and they
The following year, and the year
even can be ordered with doors or
after, more sophisticated hand-made
plastic windows.
decorations joined them. In addi-
Each year, the Jerusalem munici-
tion, as Yehuda has grown older,
pality dispenses schach, or sukkah
he has helped us select new stream-
thatch, consisting of palm fronds.
ers and prints to add to the original
Children in the family often are
collection.
given the task of collecting the
Over the years, our family has
schach and dragging it home.
been
privileged to spend part of the 1
Other families use schach in the
Sukkot holidays with friends and
form of thin planks or extremely thin
neighbors who boast large families
pieces of wood woven together,
and sukkahs larger than our living
both of which are saved from year
room. Entering these sukkahs is like
to year.
entering an enchanted room. 0
While putting up the sukkah itself

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