Send this to a friend Ismar Schorsch is the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Sukkot at the Seminary is the loveliest of festivals.
Rabbinical students are back from their high holiday jobs.
The tension of officiating for the first or second time has dissipated and the gravity of the season lifted. Joined in community, we fill the synagogue with the songs of Hallel and the pageantry of the Lulav. A feeling of thanksgiving is in the air. Together we take our meals in the richly decorated Sukkot in the quadrangle which invigorate our sense of the natural world. Conversation, singing and a bit of Torah from an invited speaker enhance this fare.