Monthly Archives: October 2020

In America, Sukkot is a backyard holiday. I once saw a sukkah in someone’s front yard, and it scarred me.  That awkward, small, square structure with burlap walls and branches on the roof, right there by the sidewalk on Acton Street in Berkeley, looked as vulnerable and inappropriate as someone arriving at school without shoes.Continue reading “Sukkot in Seger (Lockdown)”

One of the new projects that I’ve picked up over the last month is learning Mishnah, the terse legal code written down in the 3rd century that serves as the user’s manual of Judaism in the post Temple period.   I can’t say I started learning mishnayot with much forethought.  Truth be told, ‘terse legal code’Continue reading “Temporary Worlds Within the Ordinary World”