Interfaith Sukkah Lunch and Learning

If you build it [big enough] they will come, it seems. BHC was pleased to welcome clergy and congregants from Bethlehem, from St. Johnsbury, VT as well as from Littleton and W. Ossipee, NH on October 22 during this year’s 8-day Festival of Sukkot.  

Participants were treated to a lunch of homemade soups and artisanal bread, for which thanks are due to co-president Melissa Potter and board member Leslie Dreier. The perfect fall day sunlight projected beautiful shadow graphs of the Schach (ceiling mats) onto the sukkah walls.

Our roomy, year-old, canvas-walled sukkah had been erected by members and friends just after Yom Kippur in mild-mannered weather; dismantling it was done with snow on the ground and on the sukkah’s roof. (Many of us remember with great fondness its lattice-walled predecessor, designed by BHC leader Sid Regen z”l.)

Rabbi Kirshbaum led the group in a Sukkah-themed text study about four ways to come by joy honestly and dependably, inspired by several Hasidic masters.  

See additional photos from Martin here