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Family is a home-away-from-home
for the Jewish holidays.
Miriam Liebman
Special to the Jewish News
Ann Arbor
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September 20 • 2007
D
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tradition is the concept of
hospitality. From Abraham,
who sat at the door of his tent waiting
for visitors, to the Pesach seder where
we say, "Anyone who is hungry, let him
come in and eat; anyone who is needy,
let him come in and celebrate Pesach;'
hospitality is apparent. To me and my
family, it is second nature.
Beginning in my freshman year at
the University of Michigan, my par-
ents' Farmington Hills house has been
home to Jewish and non-Jewish stu-
dents alike for all Jewish holidays. This
Rosh Hashanah, 12 of my friends from
around the country joined me and
my family (and my family's friends)
for the holiday meals. For out-of-state
Jewish students, it is nice to have a
familiar place to come for holidays,
surrounded by other students equally
as far from their own homes.
While it's nice for students away
from home to celebrate Rosh
Hashanah, a holiday they are familiar
with, it is especially nice for some
students to enjoy Sukkot — a holiday
many have never celebrated before.
For many, Sukkot at my house is
their first time seeing or being in a
sukkah. A Jewish friend from New
York once told me how welcome and
comfortable she felt at my family's
seder despite my family being more
observant than her own. My house is
a place where the spread-out Jewish
community has been able to come
together by including students from
different backgrounds and traditions.
The Talmud (Shabbat, 127A) states,
"Hospitality is greater than a visit to
the house of study; it is greater than
welcoming the shechinah (the presence
of God)." In my house, there are never
too few rides to and from Ann Arbor
and there is never too little space or
too little food.
Miriam Liebman, 21, of Farmington Hills is
a senior at the University of Michigan.