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A Home service for SukkotUsing this PowerPoint presentation, you will:

• know what is involved in a home service to celebrate Sukkot

• appreciate that Sukkot is a shared family experience

• develop an awareness and respect for the feeling being expressed during Sukkot

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Tzedakah

Tzedakah is an important tradition for Jewish farmers, especially during harvest time. The Torah says for farmers to leave some of their crops in the

fields so the poor can come and glean them

Today, some families give to shelters and soup kitchens to help feed the hungry.

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Hadlakat Nerot

Sukkot is welcomed by lighting candles.

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Kiddush

Kiddush blesses the wine and people think about their history.

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Hamotzi

People eat ‘challah’ a type of bread and say thank you for the harvest.

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Blessing for Sukkot

Each morning during Sukkot (except during Shabbat) the Jews recite a blessing.

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Birkat Hamazon

After the meal, they pray and say thank you to God.

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After the meal, people usually sing and spend

time with one another in their sukkah.

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June 2008

Designed and Created by:

Beth Davies

Ysgol Penrhyn. New Broughton.Wrexham.