not fair!

[cellio]

Tomorrow night begins the week-long festival of Sukkot (aka "Booths"), during which we "dwell" in booths outdoors. ("Dwell" has been interpreted to mean "eat, and if you live in a place where it's safe you should sleep out". This city-dweller declines the latter.) I've been watching the little booths bloom across Squirrel Hill during my commute.

Number of days among the next eight when rain is not forecast: one.

Pbbbtht! Well, we'll see what happens.

The rabbis are very practical. Since Sukkot is called "zman simchateinu", or "season of our rejoicing", and since soggy dining is not very joyous, if it's raining you stay inside (except on the first night when you still should at least go out and have some bread to fulfill the commandment).

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[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

In Life-That-Was we usually got rain about half of the week. Since Sukkot is my favorite season, that was kind of a bummer. Here it promises to be much more dry, but much less cool and crisp. And forget about all the orange maple leaves I'm used to seeing. *sigh*

I hope you beat the weather odds!