House On The Roll For Sukkot

NORTHBROOK, IL — Chabad of Northbrook will take to the streets in an innovative traveling sukkah hut in order to enable Jewish people to celebrate the holiday. With a sukkah constructed and placed in the back of a pickup truck, it helps bring the holiday right to people’s doorstep.

The sukkah, a temporary structure covered with vegetation or bamboo, commemorates the time the Jews wandered in the desert wilderness on their way to the Promised Land and the miraculous clouds that surrounded them.

The current plan is for the traveling sukkah to visit old-aged homes, shopping centers and offices where people may not have access to a Sukkah booth. A light snack will be available in the Sukkah at all times to add to the enjoyment of the holiday.

Other holiday practices of Sukkot include eating in the sukkah for the duration of the holiday. Jews also take “Four Species” of plant life--a citron fruit, palm branch, willows twigs and myrtle stems--and shake them together with a special blessing on each the days of the festival. A set of the “Four Species” will also be on hand in the traveling sukkah.

"Bringing the Sukkah to the streets enable so many more to participate" said Chabad Rabbi Shua Greenspan. "The traveling Sukkah will bring holiday joy to hundreds."

Rabbi Meir Moscowitz, Regional Director of Lubavitch Chabad of Illinois and Rabbi of Chabad of Northbrook said the traveling Sukkah joins several other less-mobile cousins, such as the Sukkah found at the Daley Center in the city and Sukkot and many campuses .

The holiday observances begin on October 4 at sundown and ends on October 11 at dark. This year brings added significance as the world marks 50 years since the Rebbe--Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory initiated the worldwide Mitzvah Campaigns, a historic undertaking that took Jewish observance to the streets.

» via Chabad of Northbrook

_{Top photo courtesy Rabbi Meir Moscowitz}