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Welcoming Guests: Ushpizin / Ushpizot

 

Sukkot is associated with hospitality. We welcome guests into our sukkah ; we appreciate the beauty of our friends’ sukkot and the meals they serve us there. We also invite ushpizin—imaginary honored guests, traditionally in the form of iconic male biblical characters. We suggest expanding your guest list toinclude women, portrayals of Jewish heroes, or people who have taught you lessons about hospitality.

Sukkah Blessings

Blessings to recite for building the sukkah and dwelling in it [more]

Found In: Building a Sukkah, Welcoming Guests: Ushpizin / Ushpizot

Tags: etrog, lulav, sukkah

Welcoming Ushpizot with Ushpizin

Biblical heroines are invited to the sukkah, along with the traditional honored male "guests" [more]

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Welcoming Women into the Sukkah

Ushpizot, inviting biblical prophetesses into the sukkah, is a new ritual based in tradition. Ma'yan has designed a beautiful poster to enhance your sukkah. [more]

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Ushpizot Guide

A guide to creating ushpizot programs and the artist's description of the wall chart [more]

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Tags: sukkah, tzedakah

Seven Ushpizot

An invitation to our biblical mothers and other Jewish women to join us in the sukkah [more]

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Ushpizata: Egalitarian Seder Ushpizin

A seder based on Sephardic tradition and form for welcoming the spiritual matriarchs and patriarchs to the sukkah [more]

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Tags: Sephardi

Tivu: A Song of Welcome

A lively song that welcomes each ancestral guest to the sukkah by name [more]

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Tags: Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael

The Tradition of the Empty Chair

Some designate an empty chair to which they metaphorically invite battered women. [more]

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