Sukkot is fun and joy, fellowship and unity. It was interesting everywhere: in the school holiday, in sukkah in the synagogue and of course in sukkah on the river bank outside the city. The mitzva of blessing for the 4 plants has been performed by hundreds of Jews of Lugansk and region. The sukkah at the synagogue was not empty despite the constant rain. Every day there was a meal, visitors and guests came, laughter and congratulations filled the air. The Beit Menachem school students with parents and teachers staged a grand event at which teams improved their knowledge of Jewish tradition, built unusual sukkahs, collected puzzles, played and sang.
And outside the city in the country the most cold-resistant Jews gathered. And they did not regret it. Such celebration has not been seen by the river bank. The sukkah was built right on a bank of the river in a beautiful autumn forest. Many of the guests pronounced blessings on the four plants right in the forest sukkah decorated by the community women and children who played funny games, competing in the knowledge of traditions of holidays of Tishrei. A hot lunch was organized in the sukkah and then listened to the story of the chief rabbi Shalom Gopin and took pictures. And when sports games started even the leaves were hot. Merry Jewish music was heard far beyond the forest.
