{"id":12609,"date":"2018-09-20T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/09\/20\/i-in-the-sukkah-a-poem"},"modified":"2018-09-20T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:54:29","slug":"i-in-the-sukkah-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/09\/20\/i-in-the-sukkah-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"I in the Sukkah: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualwell.org\/ritual\/i-sukkah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0poem <\/a>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:https:\/\/rabbijillhausman.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Jill Hausman<\/a>\u00a0describes the author&#8217;s personal experience in the Sukkah. The\u00a0Rabbi and Cantor of the progressive\u00a0<a href=\"http:https:\/\/www.theactorstemple.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"redtext\">Actors&#8217; Temple<\/span>\u00a0in<\/a> New York City\u00a0shared her poem on<a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Ritualwell<\/a>, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices and observances.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">I in the Sukkah<\/h2>\n<p class=\"title\">I<br \/>\nin the\u00a0<cite title=\"Lit. hut or booth \nA temporary hut constructed outdoors for use during Sukkot, the autumn harvest festival. Many Jews observe the mitzvah of living in the Sukkah for the week of Sukkot, including taking their meals and sleeping in the Sukkah.\n\">Sukkah<br \/>\n<\/cite>body circumscribing soul<br \/>\na temporary shelter<br \/>\non good days happy here<br \/>\nlabor good<br \/>\nand fruit delicious<br \/>\nbut when rain gets in<br \/>\npeeking through the veil<br \/>\nof leafy branches<br \/>\nto beyond<br \/>\nnot content just being<br \/>\nrooted to the floor<br \/>\nto be weightless<br \/>\nin some space-booth<br \/>\nable to float up at will<br \/>\nto push off earth<br \/>\nand feel the sky<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nI<br \/>\nin the Sukkah<br \/>\nbody circumscribing soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0poem by\u00a0Rabbi Jill Hausman\u00a0describes the author&#8217;s personal experience in the Sukkah. The\u00a0Rabbi and Cantor of the progressive\u00a0Actors&#8217; Temple\u00a0in New York City\u00a0shared her poem on\u00a0Ritualwell, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices and observances.\u00a0 I in the Sukkah I in the\u00a0Sukkah body circumscribing soul a temporary shelter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2610],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=12609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3679\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=12609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=12609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=12609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}