| This year, there was a contest to reimagine a sukkah, using some of the rules that us laymen Jews don't necessarily know about to inspire creativity. I'm psyched to see the meeting of cool design and Jewish law! "Biblical in origin, the sukkah is an ephemeral, elemental shelter, erected for one week each fall, in which it is customary to share meals, entertain, sleep, and rejoice." There are hundreds (thousands?) of rules for building a sukkah. Lots of the rules are really strange and mostly irrelevant these days, since these days sukkahs are pretty standard anywhere you go. Looking something like this:  Rules include: a sukkah can be built on top of a camel or a wagon and cannot be made of food. You have to be able to see the stars through the roof and you can't use any living plants for the walls... During Sukkot, they'll be in Union Square in NYC. |
