Led by Rabbi Irwin

We come together in the Ner Shalom Sukkah to welcome the ancestors, offer our prayers that the coming year might harvest a better world, and to begin to pray for rain!

DIY LULAVIM

We will be making our own lulavim with native or local materials. Please bring a small branch from three different trees. (Traditional is willow, myrtle, and palm – but see what grows near your home that wants to be elevated in this way.) And a beautiful fruit. (Tradition has an etrog or citron. But in Talmud it is simply referred to as a splendid fruit – so bring something beautiful or delicious or fragrant; it could be an edible fruit or it could be a pinecone!) When we’re together we will twine our branches together to make unique never-before-seen lulavim, and will use them for our ritual in the sukkah. (If it’s easy, bring a couple spare branches for others to use!)