Every Person's Guide to Sukkot, Shemini

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Preface

ix

Sukkot in Jewish History

1

(14)

In the Bible

3

(4)

Hakhel

7

(1)

In Rabbinic Literature

8

(3)

In Post-Biblical Writings

11

(4)

Sukkot: Home and Synagogue Observance

15

(28)

In the Home

17

(14)

In the Synagogue

31

(12)

Laws, Symbolism, and Assembly of the Four Species

43

(20)

Beauty of the Four Species

50

(1)

Joy and the Four Species

50

(1)

Mitzvah for the Sake of Heaven

51

(1)

Human Body

51

(1)

Four Types of Jews

52

(1)

The Human Body and the Four Species

52

(1)

The Four Species and Biblical Personalities

52

(1)

The Four Species as the Four Kingdoms

53

(1)

The Lulav and Life

53

(1)

Laws and Symbolism of the Sukkah

54

(9)

Sukkot Oddities and Curiosities

63

(10)

Season of Our Rejoicing

65

(1)

Seventy Oxen

65

(1)

Hebrew Letters and the Construction of the Sukkah

66

(1)

The Sukkah and the Land of Israel

66

(1)

Kissing the Sukkah

67

(1)

The Etrog---A Mitzvah for the Sake of Heaven

67

(1)

Sukkot Allusions

67

(1)

``Fragrant Children''

67

(1)

A Hoshanna Rabbah Women's Custom

67

(1)

The Torah Names for the Festival of Sukkot

68

(1)

Return of the Cloud of Glory

68

(1)

The Easy Mitzvah of the Sukkah

68

(1)

Exemptions Due to Distress

69

(1)

Yuchi Indians Observe Sukkot

69

(1)

The Lubavitcher Chassidim Sukkahmobile

69

(1)

Rain and Eating in a Sukkah

69

(1)

Sukkah of the Leviathan

70

(1)

A Talmudic Debate: What Is a Sukkah?

70

(1)

Hoshanna Rabbah and Your Shadow

70

(1)

Etrog Uses

70

(1)

Pizza in the Hut

71

(1)

A Lulav Shak'e

72

(1)

Pelted with Etrogim

72

(1)

Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret Legends

73

(18)

Shemini Atzeret

91

(10)

In the Bible and the Talmud

94

(1)

In the Home

95

(1)

In the Synagogue

96

(5)

Simchat Torah

101

(10)

In the Home

104

(1)

In the Synagogue

104

(7)

Notable Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret Quotations

111

(8)

Sukkot and Simchat Torah Games

119

(14)

Fish

121

(2)

Baseball Game

123

(1)

Match Game

124

(1)

Sukkot Lotto

125

(2)

Word Scramble

127

(1)

Hot Potato

128

(1)

Name That Niggun

129

(1)

Simchat Torah Alphabet Song Game

130

(3)

Short Stories

133

(34)

The Hoshana of Rabbi Ephraim

135

(5)

The Cost of an Etrog

140

(2)

How K'tonton Prayed for Rain

142

(5)

How K'tonton Rejoiced and Was Merry on Simchat Torah

147

(4)

Gita Meets Some Friends

151

(5)

The Miracle of the Myrtles

156

(3)

For the Sake of Mitzvah of the Sukkah

159

(2)

The Emir and Elijah the Prophet

161

(2)

The Clever Judgment

163

(2)

The Broken Pitam

165

(2)

Glossary of Terms

167

(4)

For Further Reading

171

(4)

Index

175

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