{"id":7564,"date":"2017-01-06T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2017-01-06T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T18:16:33","slug":"word-of-the-day-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/06\/word-of-the-day-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sukkot hut:<\/em><\/p>\n

A sukkah<\/span><\/b> or succah<\/b> (Hebrew<\/a>: \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05d4<\/span>\u200e\u200e, plural, \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>sukkot\u202f<\/span><\/i>; sukkoth<\/i>, often translated as “booth”) is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish<\/a> festival of Sukkot<\/a>. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes. The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus<\/a>) describes it as a symbolic wilderness<\/a> shelter, commemorating the time God provided for the Israelites in the wilderness they inhabited after they were freed from slavery in Egypt.[1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> It is common for Jews to eat, sleep and otherwise spend time in the sukkah<\/i>. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From “Are ultra-Orthodox taking over this secular Israeli city<\/a>?<\/em>” on AL Monitor<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

“I’ll block the Gur Hasidism from coming here. They don’t have nursery schools here and I don’t have an infrastructure for them. I told the minister of housing not to build apartments here for them. They should only build apartments without balconies for the sukkot huts, and multistory apartment buildings that are not suited for the ultra-Orthodox [who do not use regular elevators on the Sabbath]. Arad has a secular character, and as long as I’m here\u00a0I’ll do everything to make sure it doesn’t change.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seems combative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sukkot hut: A sukkah or succah (Hebrew: \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05d4\u200e\u200e, plural, \u05e1\u05d5\u05db\u05d5\u05easukkot\u202f; sukkoth, often translated as “booth”) is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes. The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) describes \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}