Welcoming the Ushpizot: A Complete Guide

Welcoming the Ushpizot: A Complete Guide

This thorough article provides everything you need to know in order to run a meaningful, educational and spiritual program about the Ushpizot (Aramaic for female guests) in your community. According to the Kabbalistic tradition of Ushpizin, on each night of Sukkot we invite different Jewish forefathers to symbolically visit our Sukkah. This program provides a way to meaningfully welcome important biblical matriarchs into our Sukkot as well, complete with text study, discussion, art projects, biblio-drama, song, charity and visual and ritual components. A collaboration between several different individuals and organizations, this complete ceremony was shared on Ritualwell, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices and observances.