Sukkot Guide 2020/5781

You shall rejoice in your festival…and you shall have nothing but joy. -Deuteronomy 16

If Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur ask us to look inward and examine our internal lives, Sukkot asks us to shift our gaze outward. We may not always like what we see out there, but we can honestly face the tough stuff  if we live out our values, deepen our relationships with each other, and celebrate what is good. And sometimes, as Sukkot teaches, the outside world is breathtakingly gorgeous and we should let it do its healing work on us. – Rabbi Ilana Zietman

Visit a Sukkah

• Adas Israel – Sukkah Visitation
• Sixth & I – Sukkah Open Hours

Sukkah Experiences & Resources 

• 10/2 – DCJCC – Sukkot To Go
• 10/2 – the Den Collective – Festive Sukkot Meals in Community (thru 10/9) 
• 10/3 – Washington Hebrew Congregation – Holiday in a Box: Sukkot Edition
• 10/4 – DCJCC – Taste the High Holidays: Apple Butter for Sukkot
• 10/4 – The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington – Sukkot Fun on Zoom
• 10/4 – Temple Micah – Seeking Shelter: Stories from the Border
• 10/4 – Washington Hebrew Congregation – Come Shake the Lulav & Etrog
• 10/5 – the Den Collective – Sukkot Parashah (Torah) Study & Discussion
• 10/5 – Moishe House Mosaic-Fairfax – Sukkot: Seven Species
• 10/5 – Sixth & I – Dwelling Within: A Yoga Class for Sukkot
• 10/6 – 2 for Seder – Singing in the Sukkah
• 10/6 – DCJCC – Taste the High Holidays – Pickling, Preserving, and Food Waste
• 10/7 – Chabad – Celebrating Sukkot in Lincoln Park
• 10/8 – Temple Rodef Shalom – Social in the Sukkah
• 10/8 – DCJCC – When Home is a “Booth in the Desert”: Youth Homelessness in DC
• 10/8 – Moishe House Bethesda – A Fairer Shake (of the Lulav): Ethical Consumerism and Sukkot
• 10/11 – Sixth & I – Simchat Torah in a Truck
• 10/11 – New Synagogue Project – Simchat Torah
• the Den Collective – the Sukkah “Airbnb” Experience
• the Den Collective – Tashlich Ritual
• the Den Collective – DIY Sukkot Activities
• the Den Collective – A Shemini Atzeret Shabbat Guide
• Electric Cool Aid Dinner in the Sukkah

Sukkot Services 

Friday, October 2 

• Adas Israel – Sukkot Services
• Kesher Israel – The Georgetown Synagogue – Sukkot Services
• Temple Micah – Welcoming Shabbat and Sukkot
• the Den Collective – Feast of (In)Gathering: Sukkot Blessings & Communal Meal

Saturday, October 3

• Adas Israel – Sukkot Services
• Fabrangen – Shabbat and Sukkot Services
• Kesher Israel – The Georgetown Synagogue – Sukkot Services

Friday, October 9 

• Adas Israel – Shabbat and Hoshana Rabah Services
• Kesher Israel – The Georgetown Synagogue – Shabbat and Hoshana Rabah Services
• Temple Micah – Simchat Torah and Welcoming Shabbat Service

Saturday, October 10 

• Adas Israel – Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret Services
• Adas Israel – Simchat Torah Registration – Dance with the Scrolls!
• Kesher Israel – The Georgetown Synagogue – Shabbat and Shmini Atzeret Services
• Temple Micah – Simchat Torah and Shabbat Morning Service

The special joy of Sukkot is precisely the joy of having nothing between our skin and the wind and the starlight, nothing between us and the world. – Rabbi Alan Lew