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\u02bbO ka \u02bb\u014clelo ke Ka\u02bb\u0101 o ka Mauli.<\/p>\n\u02bbO ka \u02bb\u014clelo ke Ka\u02bb\u0101 o ka Mauli.<\/p>\n
Language is the fiber that binds us to our cultural identity.<\/p>\n
\u05e9\u05e4\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e1\u05d9\u05d1 \u05e9\u05de\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d5\u05ea\u05e0\u05d5 \u05dc\u05d6\u05d4\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05ea\u05e8\u05d1\u05d5\u05ea\u05d9\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc\u05e0\u05d5.<\/p>\n
The personal flag of this island Jew.<\/p>\n
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Wave the lulav and etrog in the six directions for seven days, and know the joy of all our ancestors!<\/p>\n
ANE Judeans, like their Canaanite neighbors, 12th century BCE to 6th century BCE, used to build Sukkot -booths made of branches – on the roof of the Temples for the Tishrei Festival of Booths. The purpose was to provide housing, originally, for YHWH god and his pantheon of gods and godesses, and housing for the gathering of the Jewish priests and priestesses – who conducted this ceremony of festival joy and eating that was engaged in after the yearly harvest.<\/p>\n
So it is now, to this very next Sukkot Festival day, 2021 CE, Jews *still* build festival huts – preferably, on top of a roof, as in days of old – to reside in and eat in and celebrate in-and-around, as a matter of Jewish ethno-ritual. We wave lulav and etrog daily for seven days in the six directions, invoking the coming yearly rains and a great harvests cycle. But, how and when did Sukkah building become a ritual required of families and\/or community in the places they reside, rather than at the Temple?<\/p>\n
Hint, it started *earlier* than the writing of Common Era Talmudic halacha (Jewish “Oral Law”), in the first centuries of CE\/A.D.. Though Sukkah booths were still constructed around the 2nd Temple to YHWH in Jerusalem by pilgrimaging Jews to reside in during the festival, the teachings of Ezra was that all Jews were supposed to dwell in the booths no matter where they are in Judean-Israel (6th century BCE). And, so to this day, this ethno-national ritual.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.thetorah.com\/article\/the-origins-of-sukkot<\/p>\n
The Origins of Sukkot
\nThe connection between the Israelite festival of Sukkot in the temple and the Ugaritic new year festival and its dwellings of branches for the gods.<\/p>\n
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Now that the \u05d4\u05e4\u05e1\u05e7\u05d4 “pause” is over, … for Jews with less than a *traditional* \u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05e8\u05ea\u05d9 understanding of this ritual of the Six Directions during Sukkot (and, blessed be, the *interested* non-Jews), please \u05e9\u05de\u05e2 “listen”!<\/p>\n
Four Kinds, Six Directions: Meditation in Movement<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.chabad.org\/multimedia\/media_cdo\/aid\/996563\/jewish\/Four-Kinds-Six-Directions.htm<\/p>\n
The movements we make with the Four Kinds each day of Sukkot are a meditation on bringing our emotions into balanced harmony. This meditation is grounded in the kavanot of the Ari, as explained in the siddur of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.<\/p>\n
We prayed for rain, food, and fertility in our harvest celebratory movements (ANE), we now pray for peace and oneness among the “human” species in our harvest celebratory movements (present CE)!<\/p>\n
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If you speak Arabic or English as a first language and you are not ancestrally from Saudi Arabia or England, then you have been colonized and your ancestors taught this language and its accompanying culture.<\/p>\n
If you are not from Rome, thus white European, but are Christian and if you are not from Arabia, thus Arab, but are Muslim, then you have been colonized (or worse!) and your ancestors taught this religion and its revisionist histories.<\/p>\n
If you are a privileged or forced product of *either* Christianity or Islam within this world, then you do not know what is an ethno-religious people – unless you are a resistant native, indigenous, yourself.<\/p>\n
Skin color and physical features have nothing to do with this. For within every ethno-national people, there are always the color\/looks exceptions. Prove me wrong, yes, those bought into the colonizers’ visions!<\/p>\n
The way to peace among humans is through honesty, communication, relationship, and mutual commitment to our human species survival. Hey, that’s *all* of us, regardless our differences!<\/p>\n
There is no “we” versus “them,” outside of human group perception. BUT, there is no *we* period in the future, if “*we*” humans keep fighting each other over differences. The earth Herself is ramping up to remove our *human* hubris from Her surface.<\/p>\n
We are smart enough, as humans to know our present predicament – to know the difference between being alive and rejoicing in our differences, rather than being extinct as a human species, all because fighting “*them*” and disparging “*them*” is more important.<\/p>\n
Sukkot, a 3,200 year old Jewish tradition (on conservative historical numbers), is all about reaching that point in human history where *all* peoples\/nations – regardless of geography, religion, ancestry, orientation, gender, politics, whatever – stop encroaching on *others* ways of life.<\/p>\n
If no one felt the *need* to impose by might their derech (way, path) upon another, then mutually co-operative peace is attainable among humans! Study history. Please! Just saying the obvious, here. Wars start by seeing difference *first*, before our commonality – and saying, “that’s not right!”.<\/p>\n
Sukkot is about the *end* of conquesting and colonizing, and about a mutually shared respect for *both* our similarities and our differences, as humans raised in various human cultures. So long as oppression, slavery, and victimization of minorities is non-existent, what does it matter which “God” that you worship?! Torah\/TaNaKh says it *does not* matter, at all!!!<\/p>\n
No non-Jew coming to the “Mount of YHWH” is expected to be Jewish – not by birth, nor by religion, nor by any homeland or colonized national politics – you come as you are, Jew and gentile, to the place of YHWH. This is Torah, through and through! This is why Jerusalem is so the center of Jewish culture – anywhere and everywhere Jews reside in this world – *for* this very purpose is the heartbeat of Jewish eschatology.<\/p>\n
But, I suppose (as most Jews) ain’t *no one* actually listening (other than Jews seeking to understand *why* we persist and do not assimilate)! Too busy, yes, with the colonizers’ deceptions! Too busy with the colonizers’ distractions. But, LISTEN ….<\/p>\n
*Mother Earth decides our fate, full stop!* Not us, humans! Seriously?!!! Which human can yet sustain human survival in oxygen-less space, and also perpetuate our *human* species?! … Hello???!!! …<\/p>\n
No wonder most Jews refuse even to bother with reaching out beyond our community. The silence is so effing disappointing! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
Who’s actually listening?!<\/p>\n
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I will end this \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05d5\u05ea Sukkot with a Ladino “Kuentos de Djoha”. The top block is written in Sephardic Jewish creole (Ladino), and the bottom block is written in English. The story’s message is a simple one: Before assuming – and, thus, stereotyping a person, a family, a people\/ethnicity – know the speakers and what they’re referring to!<\/p>\n
Moed Alegre Alegre! – \u05de\u05d5\u05e2\u05d3\u05d9\u05dd \u05dc\u05e9\u05de\u05d7\u05d4!<\/p>\n
Kuentos de Djoha – Stories of Djoha<\/p>\n
Por munchos anyos Djoha vendia frutas i vedruras kaminando por la sivdad entera. A la fin Djoha ya estava viejo, i estava echado en su kama al punto de morir kon todos su mujer i sus ijos a su deredor.<\/p>\n
Les disho Djoha, \u201ca ti mi mujer kerida, te desho las sinko kazas ke estan en la plaza.\u201d \u201cEsto es todo lo ke me deshas?\u201d Demando eya. \u201cSi\u201d, disho el. \u201cBien mi kerido\u201d, le disho eya.<\/p>\n
\u201cA ti Avramiko te desho las ocho kazas i las tres ke estan serka del hamam de la sivdad.\u201d \u201cSi mi senyor padre.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cA ti Moshoniko te do las vente kazas ke estan serka del palasio del sultan.\u201d \u201cMersi muncho mi senyor padre,\u201d disho el.<\/p>\n
\u201cA ti Sarika mi ija, ya se ke es muncho, ama a ti te desho los dos edifisios ke estan serka de la mar.\u201d \u201cSi mi senyor padre,\u201d disho eya.<\/p>\n
La enfermiera ke estava oyendo estas palavras, se kedo maraviyada i le demando a la mujer de Djoha, \u201cNo me puedo kreer, el era muy riko, kazas i edifisios en toda la sivdad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo\u201d, le disho eya. \u201cMos esta dando los kaminos ande el vendia la fruta i la vedrura, el zerzavat, para ke mozotros kontinuemos kon el echo.\u201d <\/p>\n
Djoha sold fruits and vegetables walking around the city everyday. Now Djoha was old and sick and laying on his deathbed he asked his wife and children to be by him.<\/p>\n
Djoha said, \u201cto you may darling wife, I give you the five houses by the plaza.\u201d \u201cIs that all I get?\u201d She asked. \u201cYes,\u201d he replied. \u201cOkay my love,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo you Avramiko I leave the eight houses and the three others that are next to the bathouses of the city.\u201d \u201cYes father,\u201d was the reply.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo you Moshoniko I give the twenty houses that are near the palace of the sultan.\u201d \u201cThank you father,\u201d said the young man.<\/p>\n
\u201cSarika my daughter, I know that for a young woman like you it might not be enough, but to you I leave the two buildings that are next to the sea.\u201d \u201cYes my father,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe nurse attending to him could not believe what she was hearing, she turned to Djoha\u2019s wife and said, \u201c I can not believe how wealthy he is, houses and buildings all over the city?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo my dear,\u201d she replied, \u201che is assigning the routes where he sold the fruits to us, so that we can continue with the business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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