The Rituals of Sukkot
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
This ready-to-use text, which includes commentary and kavanot, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom. The excerpt also includes rabbinic legends on each of the guests.
This ready-to-use text, which includes the Hoshanot for Hol Hamoed, Shabbat, and Hoshanah Rabbah, has been excerpted from Or Hadash: A Commentary on Siddur Sim Shalom.
- Download the Hoshanot (Hol Hamoed, Shabbat, and Hoshanah Rabbah)
- Download the Hoshanot (Hoshana Rabbah only)
By Bradley Shavit Artson, Ziegler School
This CJ Journal article originally appeared in Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer, 1996, pp. 26–34. The introduction follows below:
One of Judaism's oddest rituals is that of beating the aravot (willow fronds) during the services for Hoshana Rabbah, the final Hol ha-Mo’ed day of Sukkot.
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