Sukkah Soul Blog
March 25 - 14 Nisan 5773 - First Seder
• El Lissitzky and Frank Stella side by side video. •The meaning of Had Gadya
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March 24 - 13 Nisan 5773 - Then came the cat and devoured the kid.
Verse 2 of Had Gadya
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March 23 - 12 Nisan 5773 - Stella’s Verse 1 of ‘Had Gadya after El Lissitzky.
Stella’s Verse 1 of ‘Had Gadya after El Lissitzky.’ One small goat Papa bought for two zuzim.
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March 22 - 11 Nisan 5773 - Shabbat ha-Gadol
Here is El Lissitzky’s ‘Had Gadya’ Verse 1. Stella’s Verse 1 will appear tomorrow.
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March 21-10 Nisan 5773 - Had Gadya
El Lissitzky’s ‘Had Gaya’ and Frank Stella’s ‘Had Gadya – after El Lissitzky’ will be featured leading up to and including Pesach.
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February 25 – 15 Adar 5773 - Shushan Purim
Detail from Esther’s Offering; Esther preparing for her wedding by Lilain Broca
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January 21, 2013 - Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 10 Shevat 5773
Center window of American Windows, 1977
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December 14 – 1 Tevet 5773 - Rosh Hodesh - 7th night of Hanukkah
More about the Arch of Titus showing the Temple’s menorah:
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December 10 - 26 Kislev 5773 - 3rd night of Hanukkah
A Hanukkah Lamp from Austria-Hungary
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December 8 – 24 Kislev 5773 - First Night of Hanukkah - Happy Hanukkah!
Chagall's 'The Tribe of Asher' - OIl is the main motif.
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December 8 – 24 Kislev 5773 - First Night of Hanukkah - Happy Hanukkah!
Chagall's 'The Tribe of Asher' - OIl is the main motif.
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December 5 - 21 Kislev 5773
Hanukkah Lamp, by the Amsterdam silversmith Harmanus Nieuwenhuys
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December 4 - 20 Kislev 5773: Hanukkah Lamp, maker unknown
From the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
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November 9 - 24 Heshvan 5773 - Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938, 74 years ago today
Memorial to the Synagogue in Gottingen, Germany, destroyed by fire during Kristallnacht stands at the site of the synagogue.
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November 6 - 21 Heshvan 5773 American Windows by Marc Chagall
Chagall expresses the creative expansiveness made possible by American freedom and liberty
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October 18 - 2 Heshvan 5773 - This week: Noach
‘Then Noah built an altar to Hashem...'
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October 5 – 19 Tishrei 5773 • Chol ha-Mo’ed, weekdays of the festival / Water ceremony
During Sukkot at the time of the Temple, water was poured on the Altar with a special ceremony.
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October 3 – 17 Tishrei 5773 - 3rd day of Sukkot –Chol ha-Mo’ed, weekdays of the festival
To honor the holiday, here are a few images of Sukkot celebrations throughout the generations.
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September 30 - 14 Tishrei 5773 Erev Sukkot - our thoughts from previous years still hold
‘…and you shall be altogether joyful.’ – Deuteronomy 16:15
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September 22 - 6 Tishrei - Today was Shabbat Shuvah
The Baal Shem Tov on Teshuvah
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September 18 - 2 Tishrei 5773 The Skirball Cultural Center will put up their Sukkah Soul sukkah
The beautiful campus is designed by the award-winning architect Moshe Safdie and is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
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September 16 - 29 Elul - Erev Rosh Hashanah
1 Tishrei is the 6th day of creation when human beings were created.
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September 14 – 27 Elul 5772 / The Shofar
It is an Ashkenazi custom to blow the shofar throughout Elul until Rosh Hashanah.
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September 12 - 25 Elul 5772: In our tradition, 25 Elul is the 1st day of creation.
It is worth posting the Sarajevo Haggadah’s images of creation again, as we did near Pesach.
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September 8 – 21 Elul 5772 Selichot tonight: Preparation for the Days of Awe
The Forgiveness Of God Is Announced In Jerusalem - Chagall
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September 5 - 18 Elul 5772: Traditional spiritual preparations for the Days of Awe in Elul:
In the Hasidic tradition, one devotes the last 12 days of the month to the review of one’s life
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September 1 -14 Elul 5772 – 3 weeks and 4 days until you put up your sukkah when Yom Kippur ends
Elul is a time of preparation for the Days of Awe.
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August 29 - 11 Elul 5772 - 4 weeks until your Sukkah Soul sukkah goes up right after Yom Kippur
It is an Ashkenazi custom to read Psalm 27 from 1 Elul to Hoshana Rabbah, the 7th day of Sukkot.
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August 26-8 Elul 5772 – 4 weeks and 3 days until you put up your Sukkah Soul sukkah after Yom Kippur
Psalm 23 - Chagall
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August 22 - 4 Elul 5772 – 5 weeks until you put up your Sukkah Soul sukkah after Yom Kippur
Three additional chapters of Psalms are recited each day from 1 Elul to Yom Kippur + Chagall's Psalm 11
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1 Elul 5772 – Rosh Chodesh - the new moon: Moses ascends Mount Sinai and stays 40 days
40 days until you put up your sukkah! Your Sukkah Soul sukkah!
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August 15; 27 Av 5772 – 6 weeks and 3 days until erev Sukkot
This week: Re’eh / Ach Sameach / Chagall’s Dance
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August 11 was Shabbat Mevarchin, ‘The Shabbat that blesses’ the upcoming month of Elul.
The Sabbath, Chagall, 1910
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August 8 - 20 Av 5772 – The Zohar was published on this day in 1558.
I am a Dreamer, Chagall, 1912
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August 5 17 Av 5772 A weekly portion of ‘Ethics of our Fathers’
Picasso said, 'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color is....'
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Hope begins in the afternoon of Tisha B’Av
‘Comfort my people, comfort them, says your God.’ Isaiah 40:1
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The Fast of Av, Tisha B’Av
Mourning, Memory and Art’ Writer Richard McBee explores seven paintings that depict the Temple’s destruction.
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The Fast of Av, Tisha B’Av
Mourning, Memory and Art’ Writer Richard McBee explores seven paintings that depict the Temple’s destruction.
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The Nine Days of intense mourning leading to Tisha B’Av started on 1 Av.
The Capture of Jerusalem by Chagall
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July 18, 28 Tammuz 5772: Within the 3 Weeks of Mourning leading to Tisha B’Av
This week: Mattot-Masei - these were their journeys
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We are within the 3 Weeks of Mourning leading to Tisha B’Av:
At Sukkot we are commanded cto ‘be altogether happy.’ Deut. 16:15
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This week: Pinchas and the laws of Sukkot & Chagall’s Feast of the Tabernacles
The momentum gathers in preparation for the Days of Awe and culminates at Sukkot.
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Fast of Tammuz - Moses breaks The Tablets
Momentum gathers in preparation for the Days of Awe
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…when Adar begins, we increase our joy.”
March 4; 10 Adar 5772
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