Every Person's Guide to Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah

by Isaacs, Ronald H.

• ISBN13: 9780765760456
• ISBN10: 0765760452
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-31
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

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Table of Contents

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