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).

Comments

[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!

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out whether extreme mosquito infestation is an excuse not to be out there... it's a nice sukkah otherwise.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Out here, it looks to be real windy. I've already seen a post on FB from one of our rabbis about having her husband tie down the sukkah so it doesn't blow away.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reminding me that we don't have to go out in the sukkah in the rain. The warm weather ended yesterday and somehow we never did find time to put the sukkah up this year.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I've never understood why the sukkah's roof *must* let rain in. Best if it does, but the tradition comes from a climate very different from what we have in much of the Western Hemisphere.

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

Our (brand new) sukkah is soggy and dripping, and I confess to feeling a little less than filled to the brim with joy, not being able to enjoy it (or even have it fully decorated thanks to the rain that fell during our designated decorating time...)

I know whine whine whine. May this be my biggest trouble - right? Still, I'm hoping we get a break tomorrow, when we have a family invited over for dinner. I was SO looking forward to eating in our decked out sukkah...