Appletree Stk. #M2986 W A S What To Do, What To Do? New ways to decorate your sukkah and enjoy the holiday. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM AppleTree Editor 40wwistimmommimwes. BREAK THROUGH 7100 Orchard Lake Road, W. Bloomfield www.audettecadillaccom Mon. & Thurs. till 9; Tues., Wed., Fri. till 6 248 8 5 1 72 ■ ma Plus tax, title & plates; all rebates to dealer. Enhance the Look and Feel of Your Home with Aluminum Glass Railings For Your Free Estimate or Consultation inT 9/20 2002 62 Call Our Experts at: GLOSS COMPEIMY 248 Cover Story 353-5770 Visit our Southfield Showroom: 22223 Telegraph Road (S. of 9 Mile Rd) • Honored Guests: Avraham was famed for making guests feel wel- come, and one midrash (biblical inter- pretation) holds that God protected the Israelites in the wilderness specifi- cally because Avraham had given shel- ter to three guests. In what way could your family imi- tate Avraham? Do you have a friend or neighbor or relative whom you haven't seen in a long time, or who might especially enjoy a meal in your sukkah, or who might not otherwise eat in a sukkah? Another custom is to "welcome" the ushpiziri, the patriarchs from Jewish history, to your sukkah each day. One way to do this would be to learn about the life of each — Avraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, Yosef, Moshe, Aharon and David — on a different day. Or you might make each into a paper doll. • Get Caught In The Web: Surprisingly, only a few Web sites pro- vide really fun and easy ideas for dec- orating sukkot, or offer coloring pages appropriate for using in the sukkah. Here are a few to try: www.bry-backmanor.org/holidayfun/ sukkandecor.html — features a color- ing page with fruits, plates and can- dlesticks; www.jewishnaturecenter.org/html/ sukkah.html — a few ideas for the nature lover in you, such as how to decorate a sukkah with wild flowers; the Jewish Nature Center also is look- in- g for your ideas for decorating natu- rally. on Sukkot; learn.jtsa.edu/topics/kid.s/together/ sukkoddecorations.shtml (a page from the Jewish Theological Seminary, with easy art; projects)www.cstone.ned-bry-back/ holidayfun/sukkah.html — more quick and fun art ideas. • The Elephant Pumpkin: It's tradi- tional to decorate a sukkah with veg- etables, and it's just plain fun to dec- orate a sukkah with animal vegeta- bles. Provide your children with the veg- etables and let them come up with the animals. Here are some ideas: • A zucchini makes a great turkey body, with a carrot for the head (attached by toothpicks). • A watermelon makes a lovely body for an elephant, with cornhusk legs. • You can use permanent markers to draw on the outside of all kinds of squash. Cotton balls also can be glued easily onto foods whose rinds you will not be eating, such as can- taloupe. • Read All About It: Leo 6- Blossom's Sukkah by Jane Breskin Zalben (Henry Holt & Co.). This is a charming tale about a children's sukkah that goes up, comes down, and goes up again — and all the cele- brating that takes place along the way. Leo . and Blossom Bear watch as Papa begins building the family sukkah. They decide to make their own sukkah with a roof of leaves and pine boughs. Just as soon as Leo pulls an apple hanging in the sukkah, every- thing suddenly begins tumbling down. So they build again, this time with their parents' help. As the story ends, "The moonlight cast shadows in the stillness. Stars twinkled between the boughs above. As the family fell asleep, they heard the gentle pitter- patter of rain." Also included at the end: an excel- lent definition of the holiday and a list of all the items Leo and Blossom hung in their sukkah. • Rabbi Chaim's Story: Many Lubavitch families do not bring any- thing extra to their sukkot, feeling that the sukkah itself is decoration enough.