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A Tiny Peek In Our Succah
Wishing everyone an amazing and meaningful holiday of Succot! Here in Israel the holiday is seven days filled with mostly family and friends and living in the Succah, and that is followed by another holiday called simchat Torah, in which we return to the comfort of our homes and celebrate the Torah with lots of song and dance and a night and day packed with festivities. Phew! Right now all is quiet in our home, as I have already prepared and served a largish meal in the Succah. Tonight there is a community meal in the large synagogue succah and then festivities called Simchat Beit HaShoava, which I won’t go…
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A Gorgeous And Rustic Bamboo Chuppah For An Israeli Wedding
The Jewish wedding ceremony is held under a chuppah, and while once chuppahs consisted of four wooden poles with a Tallis or embroidered velvet roof piece, today many prefer a free standing chuppah. I attended a friend’s wedding just a week before Rosh HaShana, and was completely in awe of the gorgeous rustic yet elegant bamboo chuppah adorned with lovely floral arrangements. Truly stunning and wonderful inspiration for a chuppah or even for an outdoor event of some kind, or maybe even a succah? The color of the fabric was perfect and the floral arrangements truly complemented the look. And since this was a chuppah with a mountain view, well…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Fall is here, which means a whole new crafting direction, but the most exciting thing on the radar is that the 7/8 day Jewish holiday of Succot starts Sunday night, and that is something to truly celebrate! It is a special holiday indeed, filled with lots of family time, and gathering in the succah, and in general is just an amazingly lovely holiday. I’ll admit, here in Northern Israel the succos celebration really couldn’t get much better. In my little neighborhood we are all blessed with at least one large porch on which to build our succahs, and…
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Tips For Creating Greater Financial Security To Avoid Stress!
Above: My succah, the year that I was frugal with both time and money by re-using the decorations from my son’s bar mitzvah celebration! Raising a family is expensive, period. Jewish families, especially those who live by Torah values, face an increasing cost of raising their families while living a kosher lifestyle. Besides the standard costs of raising a family, such as the high costs of buying a family home, Jewish families face specific costs like synagogue memberships, a kosher diet, the cost of Jewish days schools, and celebrating week long festivals like Succot.and passover. Practicing good financial habits can help maintain financial security and most importantly avoid the stress…
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Simple Last Minute Succah Decorations
The glorious 7/8 day Jewish holiday of Succot starts on Sunday night, so in my nieghborhood the drills are wizzing and there is lots of hammering as folks hurry to get their succahs built! That late night quiet with a few pounds here and there is something I have gotten to know well over the years as 2am seems to be the time when I generally am trying to get the succah decorated! Truthfully I have so many decorations from past years that at this point other than some new paper decorations, like the accordian folded medallions and the accordian folded leaves I shared last week, I think I’m going…
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Recycling Crafts Make Perfect Succah Decorations
I was about to make a new round-up of recycling crafts for the succah when I realized I had already done something similar, so in order to save time, at this moment when time is truly fo the essence, I am re-publishing this post, enjoy! The glorious Jewish holiday of Succot starts Sunday night, so there is no time like the present as far as using every spare minute to make fabulous decorations for the succah! This year I got a bit of a head start as most of the decorations that I made for my son’s bar mitzvah are now going to be put to use in the succah,…
