A Special Hug

It is hard saying goodbye to the holiday of Sukkot, a time where we experience the divine hug-embrace.

I feel like we needed that hug really tight this year, a hug of reassurance, and with many holy chag days  this year, we were extended in that hug together.

During the Chag, I reflected on the sustainability and purpose of dwelling in a sukkah ,  in nature, and what that symbolized during our ancestors long journey to inherit and inhabit the gifted land , the Holy land. I also reflected on the patience and hope of our ancestors  as they carved the passage for future generations.

Sukkot was a fave holiday  representing the  special embrace, nature, our ancestors , creativity , journeys, simplicity and a tent for all.

When Sukkot was approaching this year… I believe we all did not know how we would feel about the celebration, especially on Simchat Torah, at the one year mark of a hellish day of atrocities and upheaval.

But I believe that our Jewish leaders and all of us together inspired each other to hold our heads up high and say :

WE ARE GOING TO DANCE

WE will make this day holy and celebratory. Yes with pain and sorrow, and yes mixed with spirit and joy.

And we danced, and we hoped, we prayed, we prayed for our soldiers, the captives,  the lost souls, for humanity and the world.

We are strong and will rise above all the scapegoating that is repeating itself yet again. When society is not in a good place we seem to take the blame.

We are also hurting, it is not easy being the lamps. But we rather be a part of the light then  to be ignorant and  in the darkness.

We really need the ultimate  divine hug  and the embrace of mankind returning and finding and realigning itself.

I will miss the Sukkah even when the winds took parts of it away.

stay strong, stay bright, each soul is a light