Holy Days and Holidays

[tanarill]

So first it was Sukkot! That is Jewish Thanksgiving, a harvest festival. The Chabad here puts up a massive Sukkah. It has the superstructure of a party pavilion-tent, only instead of a tent up top it is palm fronds. It is quite large enough to seat 60+ people, as I know because that many showed up on the first night. It was madness.

Then it was my birthday! That happens on October 6! I am now one year closer to having to get my own health insurance :/ This year, it happened to fall on Saturday, which is Shabbat, the day of rest. The Boy got me a vidya game which I luff. :D

Then it was Hoshana Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot! Part of the service on this day involves walking around the synagogue seven times, and then beating the lulav to bits. Why? It's Tradition!

Then it was Simchat Torah, the holy day where we celebrate finishing reading the Torah, and start again at the beginning. Once again, I went to the Chabad. They were still boozing up in preparation for the actual dancing when I left, but man, I am tired.

Thank goodness the holidays are over now until Khannukah (which is itself not actually very important, and only known because the Christmas marketers wanted to be multicultural), and the holy days over until Passover in the spring.

Whew!

Comments

[everbright]

Wow, you had ALL THE HOLIDAYS there. The Sukkah sounds pretty amazing, and ya'll are south enough to have palms around-ish, for extra religious/climatic coincidence. Do you have new lulav-bits for your sock-drawer, or did they keep it for Reasons?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I know all this really means is you're getting older, which isn't any fun, but I rather liked having you around last year. So it's good thing for me!

[tanarill]

They all come bunched up together at the beginning of the Jewish calendar year. Some years it is really bad and they all fall on weekdays D: No, Panda took the etrog this year, simply because we rotate who gets it to be fair.

My birthday was pretty good :) I am in a good place right now, and enjoying my life. So I think it will be okay. Even when I have to buy my own insurance XP