VosIzNeias.com “The web site directory http://www.localsukkah.org has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them so that they can go there to eat. The idea of this service is not to list every Sukkah, but to try and have a Sukkah listed for every area in which Jewish people may find themselves […]
“We’re between Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central, so we’re definitely one of the most visible sukkahs in the world,” said Rabbi Joshua Metzger of Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan, who was presiding over the lunchtime guests on Thursday. While a pianist serenaded the crowd with a sophisticated version of “Take the A Train,” nearly drowned […]
If you sit in the succah under any covering or canopy that is ten tefachim high you are under the canopy and you are not considered to be in a succah. What about if it is very sunny or raining and you open an umbrella? Are you in the succah? The Piskei Teshuvos (627:2) brings […]
“You may be wondering, for example, if it’s permissible to build your sukkah, the structure used during the week-long holiday for dining, entertaining and sometimes sleeping, out of the carcass of a tethered elephant. Or you may be hoping that you can set it up on the back of a camel. In both cases, the […]
