Brief: Temple Sholom Celebrates Sukkot

Temple Sholom Rabbi Joel Abraham, his wife and director of education Michelle Shapiro Abraham and their children hosted a Sukkot open house for members of the congregation at their home in Fanwood on Saturday.

Jews celebrate the harvest holiday of Sukkot each year by building and spending time in temporary structures called sukkahs. “We do this to remind us of the tents we lived in during the forty years in the desert after the exodus from Egypt and of the huts that our ancestors would build in the biblical land of Israel during the harvest. The literal commandment is to 'live' in the sukkah,” Abraham explained.

For more information about Sukkot, visit Temple Sholom congregant Jackie Lieberman’s blog at www.weboughtasukkah.blogspot.com.

Sukkot ends with the holiday of Simchat Torah, when the congregation welcomes new students into their Jewish education and congregants unroll the Torah scroll at a service to take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. A Simchat Torah morning service/Sukkot Yizkor will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

For more information about Temple Sholom, visit www.sholomnj.org or call 908-889-4900.