Sukkot Teach-in Series
This High Holy Day season, the Centre for Jewish Studies will engage King's and 鲍鱼tv students, faculty, and community members to build and decorate a sukkah - a traditional a temporary dwelling - adjacent to the Department of Classics.
Sukkot ("Booths" or "Tabernacles") starts this year at sundown on Friday, Sept. 25. It is a 7-day festival connected with the harvest, and also commemorates the 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. During the festival, observant families build a temporary outdoor dwelling - one that allows in both starlight and rain - and eat their meals there throughout the week. As a temporary shelter, the sukkah serves as a reminder of the fragility of life and symbolizes solidarity with vulnerable populations. It's also a holiday of hospitality: the festival emphasizes the importance of inviting guests into the sukkah for a shared meal. Traditionally, these guests also include one's ancestors, whose presence is summoned into the sukkah.
Our "Teaching Sukkah" will be an opportunity to invite people of all backgrounds to learn about the holiday and Jewish traditions more broadly, build community over a simple meal, and discover academic Jewish Studies through a series of informal evening teach-ins.
SCHEDULE
Fri, September 25th:
- Eli Diamond: Sukkot in the Judaeo-Platonnic tradition
- Seth Sanders: Kabbalistic traditions of welcoming ancestors on Sukkot ("Ushpizin" liturgy)
- Dorota G艂owacka: Jewish-Indigenous collaborations
Mon, September 28th:
- P.J. Doak: Navigating Judaism & mixed-race identities
- Daniel Brandes: Creation in the Hebrew bible
Tue, September 29th
VISITING SCHOLAR: Rabbi Dr. David Oler on Humanistic Judaism, spirituality, and mental health
Thu, Oct 1
Eva Mroczek & Syed Adnan Hussain on hospitality and "the stranger" in Judaism and Islam. Coincides with RELS3022 "Muslims and Jews" (5:30-8:30pm).
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Centre for Jewish Studies Teaching Sukkah, adjacent to the Classics Department.